Rick Noack is a foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Post, for which Khashoggi also worked as a commentator. He covers Europe and international security issues and says: "Politically motivated kidnappings or killings indicate a new level of foreign policy assertiveness. Especially as the West lacks leadership in defending human rights."
 

 

 

Daniel-Dylan Böhmer is an editor for the German daily newspaper “Die Welt”. His fields of interest are Turkey and the Middle East. And he says: “In a polarised world, particularly journalists become targets, because they act in between political forces.”
  

 

 

Najat Abdulhaq is a free lance journalist covering mideast politics for  DW. And she says:  "We are witnessing a new era of fright."