As Turkey vowed to uncover the truth behind the death of Jamal Khashoggi, his grieving fiancée on Saturday posted a poignant video showing the slain Saudi journalist laughing warmly as a cat interrupts the taping of an interview by leaping onto his lap.
“They took your bodily presence from my world,” Hatice Cengiz tweeted. “But your beautiful laugh will remain in my soul forever. My darling.”
Khashoggi’s last words to her — before disappearing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 — were, “See you later, my darling.”
In the video, Khashoggi speaks in Arabic during what looks like a formal interview taping. Then the cat leaps onto his lap, and he asks to keep it in the film, according to Twitter posters.
“All we needed was a piece of paper,” Cengiz wrote in the Washington Post of her planned wedding to Khashoggi, whose death has been blamed on the Saudi Arabian government.
