Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed his government had been "fully briefed up" on recordings provided by Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked to last month's murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
"Canada has been fully briefed up on what Turkey had to share," Mr Trudeau said at a press conference in Paris, where he is attending a peace forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Turkey's president said on Saturday that he had given copies to the
"We gave them the tapes," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters before flying to Paris for a gathering of world leaders commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One.
"They've also listened to the conversations, they know it."
Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Source: AAP
Turkey on Monday also lashed out at "unacceptable" and "impertinent" comments by the French foreign minister who accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of playing a "political game" over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr Erdogan said the tapes had been handed over to other countries, without giving details of the tapes' specific content.
But in an interview with France 2 television on Monday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said he "for the moment was not aware" of any information transmitted by Ankara.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Source: AAP
Asked if the Turkish president was lying, he said: "It means that he has a political game to play in these circumstances."
His comments provoked fury in Ankara.
"We find it unacceptable that he accused President Erdogan of 'playing political games'," the communications director at the Turkish presidency, Fahrettin Altun, told AFP in a written statement.
"Let us not forget that this case would have been already covered up had it not been for Turkey's determined efforts."
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu responded even more sharply, saying that his French counterpart's accusations amounted to "impertinence".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Source: AAP
"It does not fit the seriousness of a foreign minister," he said, accusing Le Drian of "exceeding his authority".
The French foreign ministry later spoke of a "misunderstanding", adding that information provided by Turkey had not allowed for the "full truth" to come out, including who might be responsible for the crime.
"The full truth which we care about isn't just linked to Turkish recordings (...) the full truth is also to be sought in Riyadh and in exchanges with our other partners," the ministry said.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and critic of the Saudi government, was last seen entering the consulate on October 2 to obtain documents for his forthcoming marriage to a Turkish woman.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned at the top levels of Saudi government. Source: AAP
Turkey's chief prosecutor has said he was strangled and then dismembered as part of a premeditated plan. There have been claims that his body was dissolved in acid.
'No exception'
After repeated denials, Riyadh finally admitted the 59-year-old had been murdered at the mission in what it called a "rogue" operation.
Mr Erdogan has accused the "highest levels" of the Saudi government of ordering the hit, without directly pointing the finger at all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
He has said he does "not believe for a second" that the prince's father King Salman ordered the crime.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the crown prince in a phone call Sunday that the United States would hold accountable all those involved in the killing.
Khashoggi's murder and the war in Yemen are two of the main sources of strain in the decades-old alliance between Washington and Riyadh. The Yemen conflict has pushed that country to the brink of famine.
Mr Altun said Ankara had shared evidence linked to the murder with officials from a large number of countries and that France was "no exception".
"I confirm that evidence pertaining to the Khashoggi murder has also been shared with the relevant agencies of the French government," he said.
A representative of French intelligence listened to the audio recording and examined detailed information including a transcript on October 24, he added.
"If there is miscommunication between the French government's various agencies, it is up to the French authorities - not Turkey - to take care of that problem," he said.
