UN experts to hear recording of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
File: Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi A visiting United Nations-sponsored team of legal and forensic experts will listen to voice recordings related to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Turkish official says. “They will listen to the voice recordings,” Yasin Aktay, an Adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told reporters in Ankara, where he met UN human rights expert Agnes Callamard and her team. The UN visit comes nearly four months after Khashoggi, a Saudi national and vocal critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered inside Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia insists that his death was a “rogue operation” and has put 11 defendants on trial for the crime. Turkey, however, has questioned the credibility of Riyadh’s inquiry. In November, Mr Erdogan pointed to the “highest levels of the Saudi government” as ordering the murder. He said Turkey shared the murder recordings with several countries, including Germany and t