Turkey says it did not give Khashoggi audio recordings to US

Turkey has not given any audio tapes related to missing Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi to the United States, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.

"It is out of the question that Turkey has provided [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo or any other US official with any audio recording," Cavusoglu told a press conference in the Albanian capital of Tiran.

Earlier, the US State Department denied claims that Pompeo had heard audio or read a transcript related to the disappearance of the Saudi journalist, who is broadly believed to have been killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

Turkish officials have told the media that the dissident and Washington Post columnist was murdered inside the building. Saudi Arabia has denied the allegations.

Turkey "has information and evidence" as to what happened to Khashoggi, Cavusoglu said, adding that Ankara will share information once the investigation is completed.

It was not immediately clear when Turkey would release the results of the probe.

A Turkish investigative team completed its search of the consulate and the consul's residence early Thursday, according to state news agency Anadolu.

Khashoggi, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, had entered the consulate to pick up papers so he could marry his Turkish fiancee.

Pompeo was in Ankara on Wednesday and met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Cavusoglu. The visit came a day after he met with the Saudi leadership in Riyadh to discuss Khashoggi's disappearance.