The fiancée of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi wrote a heartbreaking op-ed Wednesday for the first anniversary of his murder — calling it a “blow to everyone fighting for democracy” in the Middle East.

Hatice Cengiz recalled her “fear and hope” last year during her hours-long wait outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, where The Washington Post reporter had gone to get paperwork for their planned wedding.

“Who would have known that as we were finalizing preparations for our marriage, others were moving in for his murder?” Cengiz wrote in Time magazine.

“By the time I realized something was wrong, the damage was already done. Jamal’s blood had already been spilled; his body cut up into pieces,” she said.

“I will never see or have the chance to meet with him again in the earthly realm. All my dreams have been profoundly shaken.”

The anniversary falls just a week after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman admitted he bears responsibility “because it happened under my watch” — but insisting he did not order the murder.

However, a UN Human Rights Council report said there was “credible evidence” that the kingdom’s de facto ruler ordered his operatives to kill the 59-year-old writer, who was strangled and mutilated. His remains have never been found.

Cengiz said that she now feels “shame” and “an immense disappointment that the systems of the world are built on economic interests rather than ethical values.”

“I can see that the day Jamal was killed was not simply the murder of a journalist. It was also the murder of fundamental values: human rights, the international rule of law, the norms of diplomacy,” she insisted.

“The murder of Jamal, a rare man of his generation, was a blow to everyone fighting for democracy in the region.”

She also spoke of moving shows of support she has received.

“The savagery of Jamal’s killing pained anyone with a conscience,” she wrote.

“They tried to silence Jamal forever. But instead, he has become the symbol of our collective moral conscience, the voice for the voiceless in the Middle East.”