Aides to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Saudi officials were "totally lacking in transparency" in their investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and expressed deep concern and disadvantage about their credibility.
Khashoggi, a royal insider, was a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and began writing for the Washington Post. On 2 October, he was killed by a team of Saudi Arabian staff at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, causing international disgust and tarnishing the prince's image.
After making many contradictory statements about Kazig's fate, Lyad said that when he failed to convince him to return to Saudi Arabia, he had been killed and his body dismembered.
Fahrettin Altun, Erdogan's communications director, told Reuters that a series of "false denials" by Saudi officials had led to a series of uncertainties surrounding the case.
"Over the past four months, Saudi authorities have been less involved in dealing with Turkish counterparts and the international community than they are about to be," Alten said in a written statement to Reuters.
"The Saudi authorities must extradite Mr. Khashoggi's murderers to Turkey, where they committed premeditated murder to prove their willingness to serve a just cause."
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