Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince have received members of the family of murdered dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Turkey added to global pressure on the kingdom to answer questions over the circumstances of his death.
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King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered their condolences to Khashoggi's brother and son during a meeting at the royal palace in Riyadh, official Saudi news agency SPA reports.
Erdogan also offered his condolences to Khashoggi's family in a phone call on Tuesday, according to state news agency Anadolu.
In the same call, he pledged to "shed light on the murder", Anadolu said, continuing to pressure the Saudi elite.
"Pinning such a case on some security and intelligence officials will not satisfy us or the international community," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara earlier on Tuesday, pledging to "bring to account everyone from the person who gave the order to the person who carried it out".
Erdogan said officials from Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul and a team of 15 people from Saudi Arabia planned the "political murder" of Khashoggi, a vocal critic of the kingdom's crown prince, days before his death.
"A plan, a road map was put into action," Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party in parliament.
He further cited "strong evidence" that employees of the consulate scouted a nearby forest prior to the incident while "15 Saudi security, intelligence and forensic officials" were flown in on separate flights a day before Khashoggi's death.
Erdogan's remarks, three weeks after Khashoggi disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, follow earlier statements by Riyadh that the journalist was killed by a rogue team, including local co-operatives.
"Why did these 15 people team up in Istanbul? On whose orders? Who is this local co-operative?" Erdogan asked, without citing any named Saudi officials or members of the royal family.
"No one should ever think that this case can be covered up before all these questions are answered," Erdogan said, adding that the whereabouts of Khashoggi's body is still unknown.
US Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, was in Turkey, and that the "full resources" of the US intelligence services were being deployed.
He called the "brutal murder" an "assault on a free and independent press" while also slamming Riyadh for engaging in "deception", though he stopped short of promising sanctions.
"The president will make a decision that reflects the values and the interests of the American people," Pence said. "We will do what is best for the American people and we will also make sure the world knows the truth of what happened."
Local media in Turkey reported that Turkish authorities conducted searches of a villa near Istanbul and a car believed to belong to the Saudi consulate in connection with Khashoggi's case on Tuesday.
Khashoggi's death on October 2 was described as "murder" for the first time by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Sunday.
While al-Jubeir told Fox News on Sunday that the kingdom was "determined to punish those who are responsible for this murder", Erdogan offered to have the suspects tried in Turkey instead of Saudi Arabia.
"I call on the top [Saudi] management, King Salman in particular," Erdogan said Tuesday. "I propose putting these 18 people on trial in Istanbul. It is up to them to decide [on a trial], but such is my proposal and my demand."
Australian Associated Press