- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan knocked down the Saudi explanation for Khashoggi's death in a speech on Tuesday.
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- Saudi Arabia has denied that its leadership was involved in the killing, and has tried to blame rogue agents who made
- a "terrible mistake" for the death.
- While Erdogan did not mention Saudi Arabia's leadership directly, he said he was not satisfied with Riyadh's explanation.
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Turkey contradicted Saudi Arabia's claim that the killing of Jamal Khashoggi was a rogue operation
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has evidence that Jamal Khashoggi's death "wasn’t accidental but was instead the outcome of a planned operation."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan contradicted Saudi Arabia's claim that the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a rogue operation, and said instead that Khashoggi was the victim of a "savage" and "planned" murder.
The narrative surrounding Khashoggi's disappearance has been shaped largely by leaks from Turkish officials that challenge Saudi Arabia's accounts, and Erdogan has issued increasingly bold statements implicating the Saudi leadership in Khashoggi's death.
Erdogan did not make mention of many of the grisly claims made in these leaks, or of the recording of Khashoggi's death that Turkey claims to hold.
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