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Jacqueline Sutton died at Istanbul’s 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.
She was the acting Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) at the time of her death.
Her friends questioned Turkish media reports that she killed herself after not having enough money to pay for a new ticket for the connecting flight she had missed.
She is reported to have arrived at Ataturk Airport from London on Saturday night.
Journalist and international development worker Rebecca Cooke said the death was "shocking and sad news" and said it needed "an international not just local" investigation.
originally posted by: asen_y2k
a reply to: Mastronaut
Turkey killing a British citizen? Just to supress information regarding the Kurds? Isn't that too daring for a country desperate for entry into the EU and Visa free regime and all that?
I think it could be a natural death.
originally posted by: Sparkymedic
a reply to: Mastronaut
I wonder if she was crying in fear of her life? Was she being followed? Who kills themselves by hanging, in an airport bathroom...all because they missed a flight? Makes little sense, to me at least.
originally posted by: Sparkymedic
a reply to: Mastronaut
I wonder if she was crying in fear of her life? Was she being followed? Who kills themselves by hanging, in an airport bathroom...all because they missed a flight? Makes little sense, to me at least.
Untimely deaths of members[edit]
On October 18, 2015, the IWPR acting Iraq director, Jacqueline Anne Sutton (a.k.a. Jacky Sutton), age 50, was found hanged in a bathroom stall of Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport. She had been on her way to Irbil.[10] [11]
On May 2, 2015, the previous IWPR Iraq director, Ammar Al Shahbander, was killed in a car bomb attack, along with up to 17 other people.[10][12]
On June 7, 2007, IWPR journalist Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, age 44, was murdered by gunmen as she left her home in Mosul[13] IWPR is establishing a journalists' assistance fund in her name.[13]