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AFP
Istanbul
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday vowed to reveal within days the"naked truth"over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Riyadh insisted it did not know the whereabouts of his body and that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been unaware of any operation to kill him.
In his strongest comments to date on the affair, US President Donald Trump has accused Saudi Arabia of lying about the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who fell out of favour with Riyadh, as pressure built on the administration to strike a tougher line.
But the Saudi foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, insisted on Sunday that Prince Mohammed was"not aware"of the killing and that the kingdom does not know where the body is.
Erdogan, whose ties to Saudi Arabia appear to have further soured over the Khashoggi case, said he would reveal the findings of his country's investigation into the killing in the coming days.
The Turkish leader's statement came the day after Saudi authorities conceded Khashoggi had been killed inside their diplomatic compound in Istanbul.
"We are looking for justice here and this will be revealed in all its naked truth, not through some ordinary steps but in all its naked truth,"Erdogan told a rally in Istanbul.
Erdogan is expected to make a full statement to his party's MPs in parliament on Tuesday.
Turkish officials have said they believe that 15 Saudi men who arrived in Istanbul on two flights on October 2 were connected to his death.
Riyadh reacted by claiming one of the 15 had died in a car accident years ago.
