(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Bezos attended a vigil for
Jamal Khashoggi in front of Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, where the journalist was murdered a year ago.Speaking at the Wednesday anniversary event in Turkey’s largest city, Bezos addressed Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz.pic.twitter.com/fdFkhOXWfH— Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) October 2, 2019 “No one should ever have to endure what you did,” he said. “Right here where you are, you paced that street for hours, pacing and waiting. And he never came out. It’s unimaginable. And you need to know that you are in our hearts. We are here and you’re not alone.”Khashoggi, a government insider-turned-critic who wrote about
Saudi Arabia for outlets including the Bezos-owned
Washington Post, was killed and dismembered by a Saudi team at the consulate building after entering to pick up documents to marry Cengiz, a
Turkish citizen.(Updates with Bezos speech.)\--With assistance from Asli Kandemir.To contact the reporters on this story: Ugur Yilmaz in Istanbul at uyilmaz@bloomberg.net;Cagan Koc in Istanbul at ckoc2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Onur Ant at oant@bloomberg.net, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.