Khashoggi killing uncovers real face of Saudi Arabia: Nobel laureate Yemeni activist

Speaking during a special session of TRT World Forum titled "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: A Reflection of Regional Politics",, Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist and activist, said Khashoggi's murder has "revealed the real face of Saudi Arabia."

"Only ISIS [another name for Daesh] can do this kind of killing. Only Saudi Arabia dares to do this kind of killing," she said.

"The same regime, who killed Jamal Khashoggi and dismembered his body, is the same regime, the same killer, who is killing my people in Yemen every day.

"We, as Yemenis, know that they take the responsibility and Mohammed bin Salman, himself is the one, who ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi," she added.

Ayman Nour, former Egyptian presidential candidate, said: "He wasn't a normal person. He wasn't a normal journalist. He wasn't a normal writer. He was someone, who wanted to change."

"He was a person, who was a victim of the change in the Arab world and the Arab Spring," said Nour, who was a close friend of Khashoggi.

David Hearst, the editor in chief of London-based online news outlet Middle East Eye, said: "What was the purpose of murdering Jamal. It was to stop moderate Saudi voice speaking up in DC. That was the purpose of it."

"What happens after, since Jamal's death. He has become a symbol of everything that the regime pretended it was not," Hearst said.