The relationship was nevertheless intense, not least because Mr. Khashoggi was going through a wrenching breakup with his home country. He had moved to the United States 18 months earlier and begun to write columns for The Washington Post. Many of Mr. Khashoggi’s friends had been imprisoned, and he felt obliged to raise his voice on their behalf, Ms. Cengiz said. “He was always talking about the moral responsibility he bore,” she told the Turkish news outlet Haberturk. He asked Mr. Khashoggi to buy an apartment and settle it on her.

Source: International New York Times May 03, 2019 13:30 UTC