TOKYO (Ruptly) — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country did not believe orders to murder Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoghi came from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, during a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Speaking at Japan’s National Press Club, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “convinced that King Salman had no involvement in this murder”, adding that “he is not a person that instructs people to kill his own citizens.”