Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan commanded a global audience from Ankara today, addressing for the first time in detail the circumstances surrounding the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. But the Turkish leader stopped short of accusing any of the kingdom’s leaders by name.

Erdogan, who had riveted the world with pledges to reveal the truth “in all its nakedness” today, asserted that Khashoggi had been killed in a “savage” premeditated murder. “We have strong evidence in our hands that shows the murder wasn’t accidental but was instead the outcome of a planned operation,” Erdogan told members of his ruling Justice and Development Party in a parliamentary address that was broadcast live and translated simultaneously into Arabic and English.

Erdogan went on to describe in detail information that had for the most part already been steadily leaked by Turkish officials to the media since the Washington Post columnist’s disappearance on Oct. 2: that a team of 15 Saudi security officials had flown into Istanbul to carry out the murder and the ensuing coverup. Erdogan said he wanted the perpetrators, who Saudi officials say have been detained, to be tried in a Turkish court of law.

However, dashing expectations, Erdogan made no mention of a much touted audio tape that Turkish officials say proves how Khashoggi was murdered. Its origin is a source of unremitting speculation that Turkey had planted spies inside the Saudi Consulate.