Washington Post: Ankara inform Washington that it has audio and video records showing Khashoggi’s death

Turkey has informed US officials that it has audio and video recordings confirming the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his consulate in Istanbul, Washington Post quoted US and Turkish officials as saying.

The newspaper said it was not clear whether US officials had seen the video footage or heard the audio records that was mentioned by the Turkish side, but made it clear that Turkish officials described the content of those records.

“The records highlight what happened to Jamal Khashoggi when he entered the Saudi consulate, where his voice can be heard along voices of men speaking Arabic, as well as hearing how he was interrogated, tortured and then killed”, the news paper quoted an unnamed source as saying.

Reuters quoted a Turkish security official as saying that Turkish investigators are currently preparing to enter the Saudi consulate, but they are waiting for the final statement from the Saudi side.

The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the headquarters of his county’s consulate in the city of Istanbul on Tuesday (October 2nd) and lost contact with him after that.

The Turkish authorities and Saudi Arabia have given conflicting accounts about Khashoggi, who has disappeared since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Ankara says he has not left the building, while Riyadh insists he left shortly after ending a family deal.

Turkey has not yet officially announced its hypothesis on the fate of Khashoggi, but several sources, including a security source said that preliminary estimates indicate that the Saudi journalist has not been out of the consulate of his country since the second Tuesday of the past.

The newspaper “Yeni Shafak” close to the Turkish authorities have published new details related to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and said that based on audio recordings obtained by the Turkish police, Khashoggi exchanged conversations with Consul General Mohammed Al Otaibi in his personal office for some time, Two elements of the 15-member team, who came specifically to complete the task of getting rid of the Saudi journalist, are entering.

According to the newspaper, that two men forcibly taken Khashoggi to the room next to the Consul’s room, he tried to resist but was controlled after being injected with narcotic substance.

The newspaper quoted a Turkish official confirmed to the Washington Post that the sounds of fighting in the room heard in audio recordings obtained by the Turkish authorities.

The newspaper pointed out that the Saudi journalist was transferred to a third room, where he was killed and start cutting his body into parts, noting that the killing and cutting Khashoggi by the bodyguard of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman registered.

On the transfer of parts of Khashoggi’s body, the newspaper said that the “assassination team” bought bags of large size of the market, “Sirkeci” on the European side of the city of Istanbul, which appeared during the transfer from the consulate to the Mercedes “Vito”, which sent home The consul, 300 meters from the consulate headquarters, adding that “the first team that killed minutes left immediately, the second team was to scan and clear the evidence from the crime scene”, which was including the head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine Mohammed Salah Al Teqiqi, whose name was revealed by the Turkish authorities.

The newspaper pointed out that the survey of evidence from the site of the killing of Khashoggi registered and received by the Turkish intelligence as well.

The newspaper “Yeni Shafq” that the Saudi consul Mohammed Al Otaibi “currently living in a state of panic”, and stayed in his home for days and has been canceled all dates, amid beliefs of the Turkish security that the body or parts of the body of Khashoggi buried in the garden of the consulate.

In the case of the 26 consulate cars that were checked by Turkish security forces, one of the cars moved from the European side of Istanbul to Asia, and disappeared after the Kartal Mal Tebih Pendik from the surveillance cameras for a period of 5-6 hours, She returned again to appear.

The US CNN reported on Friday evening that Turkey had “shocking” audio and video recordings supporting Khashoggi’s death in his consulate in Istanbul.

The news network quoted a source familiar with the investigations, that a Western intelligence agency had seen evidence showing a fight inside the consulate, after Khashoggi entered it, on 2 October.

The source also pointed to “evidence about Khashoggi’s death”.

The source said the foreign intelligence agency described the evidence, which was seen by Turkish officials, as “shocking and disconcerting”.

The effects of the Saudi journalist disappeared on October 2, after entering his consulate in Istanbul, to conduct a formal treatment for his marriage.

Khashoggi fiancé, Khadija Cengis, said in media statements that she accompanied him to the consulate building in Istanbul, and that the latter entered the building and did not get out of it.

Saudi officials denied this, saying the man had visited the consulate, but then left.

Turkish security sources had earlier revealed that 15 Saudi citizens arrived at Istanbul airport on two flights, and then went to their consulate in Khashoggi before returning to their countries within hours.

The two flights took off from the United Arab Emirates and the second from Cairo, Egypt.

The two planes returned to the UAE and Egypt, apparently after the end of the mission.