British journalist found dead at Turkish airport
Source: The Guardian
Tributes have been paid to a British journalist who has died in Turkey in suspicious circumstances.
Jacqueline Sutton died at Istanbuls Ataturk airport, according to local media reports. The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet said she was en route to the Iraqi city of Irbil and was due to change flights in Turkey.
It was not clear how Sutton had died, with some reports saying she had taken her own life. But fellow journalist and development worker Rebecca Cooke called for an international investigation.
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She was reported to be the acting Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) at the time of her death.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/jacqueline-sutton-foreign-office-died-istanbul-airport
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)USIP joins the many other organizations, friends and family honoring the life of Ammar al-Shahbander, the Iraq chief of mission for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), who died May 2 in Baghdad as a result of a car bomb attack. A number of USIP staff worked with Ammar to advance his countrys search for peace and security.
http://www.usip.org/olivebranch/2015/05/06/tribute-iraqi-peacebuilder-ammar-al-shahbander
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Little rinky dink gates and boarding sections....
Turn a corner and it's the freakin' Mall of America....
forest444
(5,902 posts)Turkish support for ISIS? Its many billions in heroin traffic and money laundering? A connection between the two?
Screw it. We'll never know.
uawchild
(2,208 posts)Ammar al-Shahbander, her predecessor at the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), died May 2 in Baghdad as a result of a car bomb attack. Car bomb attacks in Baghdad are the stock in trade of the wahhabist Sunni jihadists.
But the possibility that the Turkish government wanted to silence her remains, sadly, a possibility.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Ergodan is a psychopath, and not a smart one, either.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Turkey would become more democratic without Ergodan. Egypt's & Syria's spring purges did not go well.
My sympathy to the families of journalists who are killed for doing their job.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)tyrants.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)There has to be more to this story...
closeupready
(29,503 posts)It's like they are trying to hide something.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)"Bizarre" hardly begins to describe that.
daleo
(21,317 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)But that would be incredibly ballsy to pull off in a huge, bustling international airport...
Nihil
(13,508 posts)I would expect both her home and her workplace would be better protected
than a place where you have thousands of faceless people wandering around
for hours on end.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)then it has to be more than a one-man job...People would have had to already been in place at the terminal when she got off the plane, and been ready to strike the moment she went into the bathrooms...And all this observation and tailing without anybody getting wise...
This also doesn't explain why potential assassins would have waited until *after* she missed her connecting flight, since they wouldn't have been able to count on that
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Missing a connecting flight provides an opportunity thanks to nature providing
the necessity for a visit to somewhere less public than anything prior to that.
(+ Anyone tailing her would be in the same state from missing the intended
connection.)
Not claiming it was so - at present all we can say is "died in suspicious circumstances"
as in the OP - but just following through on your previous comments!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,155 posts)without someone noticing while they're preparing/alive. It does seem very suspicious.