Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan exerted further pressure on Saudi Arabia, by sharing with Western allies the recordings related to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Erdogan told reporters on his plane returning from a weekend visit to France that he discussed the Saudi journalist's killing with the U.S., French and German leaders in Paris where they marked the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice on Sunday.

"We played the recordings regarding this murder to everyone who wanted the tapes from us. Our intelligence organization did not hide anything. We played them to all who wanted them including the Saudis, the United States, France, Canada, Germany, Britain," he said.

"The recordings are truly appalling," said Erdogan, without giving further details.

The Turkish leader went on to say that a Saudi intelligence officer was really shocked when he listened to the recording and he said that a person "must be high on heroine" to commit such an horrific act.

Khashoggi, 59, a critic of the Saudi leadership, was killed on Oct. 2 inside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul where he entered to pick up official documents for his marriage to his Turkish fiance.

Khashoggi's killing has provoked global outrage but little concrete action by world powers against Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump who has no intention of cutting ties with the kingdom.

Erdogan reiterated to reporters on his plane that it was clear the murder was planned and that the order came from the top level of Saudi authorities, but he ruled out that Saudi King Salman was aware of the murder.

He nevertheless expressed his frustration over the Saudi regime's lack of providing answers, pressing Riyadh to expose the truth as soon as possible.

Saudi authorities have arrested 18 suspects last month for involvement in the Khashoggi's murder.

Riyadh first denied any knowledge or involvement in the crime before admitting it and blaming it on the "rogue" forces inside the state apparatus.

The body of the slain Washington Post contributor has not been found, despite extensive investigation by Turkish services. Turkey's chief prosecutor has said Khashoggi was strangled and then dismembered as part of a premeditated plan. There have been claims that his body was dissolved in acid.

A journalist with Turkey's Daily Sabah newspaper said Khashoggi's killers placed a plastic bag on his head the moment he entered the Saudi compound.

"I'm suffocating. Take this bag off my head, I'm claustrophobic," he allegedly said in his dying moments and the murder lasted for seven minutes, the report said.

Turkey has been exerting pressure on Saudi Arabia over the Khasoggi murder, vowing that Ankara will not let this case unsolved.

"Turkey has continued its efforts to keep the international attention on the case. The Turkish government made it clear that Saudi's efforts to let this murder fade away will not be allowed and it will continue to keep the affair alive," Serkan Demirtas, a Turkish political analyst and journalist, told Xinhua.

Experts said that Erdogan has been trying to curb Saudi influence in the Middle East by using the Khashoggi case to increase pressure on Riyadh, which has chilly ties with Turkey.

Demirtas, the Ankara bureau chief of the Hurriyet Daily News, argued that Turkey's strategy was "to impose a concerted pressure" on Riyadh with the involvement of the global powers from the very beginning of the incident.

Visibly irritated by the Turkish strategy, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Adrian accused Erdogan of "playing a political game" over this case and denied that his country received recordings from Turkey, prompting a backlash from Ankara.

"It is very impudent for them to accuse our president of playing political games, this is unacceptable," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted by state-run Anadolu Agency as saying.

A Turkish official told Xinhua that if it were not for Turkey, "maybe this affair would have been closed without the culprits being found because they (Western countries) have very lucrative contracts with Saudi Arabia."

The French Foreign Ministry later called it a "misunderstanding," adding that the information provided by Turkey had not allowed for the "full truth" to come out, including who might be responsible for the crime.