Turkey and Saudi Arabia say they will work together to find out what happened to a missing Saudi critic and journalist. Jamal Khashoggi vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than a week ago and is feared dead by his friends and Turkish authorities. CGTN's Guy Henderson reports.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's personal bodyguards were in Istanbul last week. That's the claim Kemal Ozturk's pro-government newspaper made on Thursday about the Crown Prince.

Ozturk's Friday story will be about an alleged audio recording of what Turkish authorities believe was the hit squad that murdered Jamal Khashoggi.

KEMAL OZTURK JOURNALIST, YENI SAFAK NEWSPAPER "The Turkish investigators have a sound recording where the 15-people execution team is talking about the way they are going to proceed to kill him. This is the main detail and evidence about how they did it."

The leaks from Turkish government sources claim to paint a clearer picture. Of a team of Saudi assassins who arrived in Turkey on October 2nd, the same day Khashoggi was killed, drove into the Saudi consulate ahead of the renowned commentator's arrival there. And left carrying him or his body. All as his fiancee waited outside. Saudi Arabia officials called the allegations, 'baseless and outrageous'. The leaks had slowed in recent days: taken as a sign Ankara still hoped Riyadh might change its approach. It hasn't. And now time on that pause is up.

GUY HENDERSON ISTANBUL "If Ankara had intentionally eased some pressure on Riyadh, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now reapplying it. On Wednesday, the Turkish president again called on Saudi officials to prove Jamal Khashoggi left this consulate alive."

Emboldened, perhaps, by a more vocally critical White House. Though, the United States still says calling off its lucrative arms deals with the kingdom isn't an option.

DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "They are spending 110 billion dollars purchasing military equipment and other things. If we don't sell it to them they'll say 'well thank you very much, we'll buy it from Russia. Or thank you very much, we'll buy it from China.' That doesn't help us not when it comes to jobs and when it comes to our companies losing out on work. But there are other things we can do."

The U.S. approach continues to anger many Turks. Though some hope it may yet shift.

OZCAN TIKIT TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST "It should be a turning point for the United States. It's very hopeful sign what the U.S. president said. The U.S. should reconsider the support it gives to regimes in the Middle East."

Ozturk believes there's more incriminating evidence to come. Piling more pressure on Saudi Arabia - and its most powerful ally. GH, CGTN, Istanbul.