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Wow. This story is so full of weird claims. 'didn't have money' for another ticket'? really? she didn't have a visa card?
'hung herself with a shoestring from bathroom door hook' .. quite a feat, since those hooks are only about 4-1/2 feet from the floor.
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Former BBC Journalist Mysteriously Found Dead At Istanbul Airport
Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said Jacqueline Sutton took her own life inside a washroom at the airport after missing her connecting flight.
by Associated Press * 10/19/15 (1 hour ago)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) The Iraq director of an organization promoting journalism in conflict zones has been found dead in unexplained circumstances at Istanbul's main airport, colleagues and British officials said Monday.
Friends and co-workers of Jacqueline Sutton called for an urgent investigation into her death, which comes months after her predecessor was killed in a bombing.
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting said Sutton, its country director for Iraq, was found dead at Ataturk Airport on Saturday. It said the former journalist had been on her way to her base in Irbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Britain's Foreign Office said it was "providing assistance to the family of Jacqueline Sutton at this difficult time." It said British officials were in close contact with Turkish authorities.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said Sutton took her own life inside a washroom at the airport after missing her connecting flight. The agency reported, without citing a source, that she became distraught because she didn't have money to buy a new ticket to Iraq.
Turkey's private Dogan news agency said Sutton hanged herself with shoelaces from the hook of the bathroom door, also without citing a source. Her body was discovered by three Russian tourists who alerted police, Dogan said.
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tblue37
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(46,416 posts)He was the head of German efforts for training the Kurds. Probably not connected, but weird shit.