Jamal Khashoggi's fiance says that US efforts to solve his killing are not sincere

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Hatice Cengiz on Haberturk, October 26, 2018.

• Hatice Cengiz, the fiancé of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said the US is not taking his murder investigation seriously.
• She said spoke on Turkish TV station Habertürk on Friday, and said Donald Trump was being "very political" with the case. 
• Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi regime, was murdered after he disappeared into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. 
• Here's everything we know about the Washington Post journalist's murder so far.

The fiancé of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz, accused the United States of not being sincere in its efforts to solve his killing.

During her first TV interview since Khashoggi died, Cengiz indicated her distrust of President Donald Trump and said she had turned down an invitation to travel to the US, Reuters reported.

A brief published a few hours after the interview said:

"[Cengiz] did not accept U.S. President Donald Trump's invitation to visit the White House because she thought it was aimed at influencing public opinion in his favor.

"In an interview with Habertürk TV, Hatice Cengiz said she would not go to the White House until the United States was sincere in its efforts to solve Khashoggi's killing, demanding that all those responsible be tried and punished."

Habertürk published footage of the interview (in Turkish) here.

According to a Habertürk transcript of the interview, Cengiz also spoke about the emotional strain of Khashoggi's disappearance.

She spoke about Khashoggi's worry over his appointment at the Saudi consulate, and that he thought of Turkey as a safe country.

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Jamal Khashoggi.

Cengiz previously wrote an article in the New York Times on Saturday saying she will only speak with US President Donald Trump, "if he makes a genuine contribution to the efforts to reveal what happened inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that day." 

On Sunday, the Saudi Foreign Minister said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had no part to play in Khashoggi's murder and that it was a rogue operation.

Saudi Arabia initially denied all knowledge of Khashoggi's whereabouts after he went missing on October 2.