Hatice Cengiz is a Turkish researcher and PhD student who was engaged to be married to Khashoggi before his assassination in 2018. The two had reportedly met the same year during a conference in Istanbul. She has recalled how they exchanged ideas and debated on world events and she was looking forward to beginning a new life with him.
"Yet I am left at the door alone. I am the one story Jamal did not complete," she wrote in 2018.
One of five kids, Cengiz pursued her higher studies and research at Istanbul University. She has one child from a marriage that ended in divorce.