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Report: Missing NYC woman found dead in Turkey
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Posted on 02/02/2013 2:57:04 PM PST by nuconvert

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The agency said she was found with a head wound and a blanket near her body. She was wearing jeans, a jumper and a jacket, and still had her earrings and a bracelet.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: istanbulstabbing; missing; sarai; saraisierra; turkey
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1 posted on 02/02/2013 2:57:12 PM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Now that must be one big turkey. Oh well, never mind.


2 posted on 02/02/2013 2:58:07 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: nuconvert

Who in their right mind would want to travel to Turkey.


3 posted on 02/02/2013 3:03:52 PM PST by Wiggins
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To: Wiggins
A woman alone! She should have stayed home and committed suicide!
4 posted on 02/02/2013 3:08:46 PM PST by cameraeye (A happy kuffir!)
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To: nuconvert

What a surprise. She met some Turk on the internet and they arranged to meet at the bridge. The whole story is pretty strange, including her going off to Turkey in the first place.

Reminds me of the book by the Spanish writer Antonio Gala, The Turkish Passion (La Pasion Turca). They made a movie of it in Spain, but I didn’t think the movie was particularly good. And normally I don’t like Antonio Gala, but this novel...about a bored upper middle class Spanish woman who takes off on a trip for Turkey, leaving her boring husband, etc., and ends up getting involved with and then finally completely degraded by a Turk to whom she is insanely devoted - was actually an excellent book.


5 posted on 02/02/2013 3:09:35 PM PST by livius
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To: SkyDancer

Foreign travel seems borderline insanity these days. Almost suicide...

I was overseas enough to see that wherever you go, there you are.


6 posted on 02/02/2013 3:09:56 PM PST by Huebolt (A country that has tipped will fall. RIP USA)
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To: nuconvert


7 posted on 02/02/2013 3:11:54 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: nuconvert

The more statistically “educated” our nation’s population becomes, the less wisdom and judgement they seem to have.


8 posted on 02/02/2013 3:13:49 PM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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To: Wiggins

My son would...
He is going to be a preacher, and will be traveling there to follow the journeys of Paul.


9 posted on 02/02/2013 3:16:18 PM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
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To: Huebolt
Foreign travel seems borderline insanity these days. Almost suicide...

I'm a pretty big boy and can take care of myself but I wouldn't go there alone.

10 posted on 02/02/2013 3:18:46 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Huebolt

I travel a lot (including to Mexico) and normal rules of caution are usually sufficient. I have a friend who has gone to Turkey a lot, and while she said Turkish women are coming under increasing Islamic pressure, in general it’s not a problem for a visitor.

I would suspect there was more going on in this story than we are getting. I think she might have been naive and lured into something, or possibly there was something going on that her husband didn’t know about.


11 posted on 02/02/2013 3:19:27 PM PST by livius
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This is an odd story. She travels first to Turkey...stays a few days...flies to Amsterdam for 24 hours, then onto Munich for 3 days....and back to Istanbul (was only going to stay 48 hours before leaving for the US). No, she’s not known as a international traveler either.

My humble opinion is that she was a courier for diamonds or drugs. This story has too many points about it. Supposed to have been her first trip overseas...but she spends almost $10k on this episode.

As for Istanbul...around seventy percent of the city is fairly safe for anyone to walk around...day or night. I’d suspect she was in on some deal and screwed up somewhere in the middle of it.


12 posted on 02/02/2013 3:29:22 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: nuconvert

White slavery?


13 posted on 02/02/2013 3:35:29 PM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: nuconvert

I was at Incirlik Air Base in 1982. It was the worst time in my life. I hated being in Vietnam, but to me, I hated being in Turkey even more. It was the ROP I disliked the most.


14 posted on 02/02/2013 4:10:52 PM PST by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: SkyDancer
Now that must be one big turkey. Oh well, never mind.

I was wondering if she was baked in it as well.

15 posted on 02/02/2013 4:11:58 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Wiggins

People who are interested in excellent food, incredible architecture, natural beauty and ancient history. Any other stupid questions?


16 posted on 02/02/2013 4:22:39 PM PST by wideawake
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To: pepsionice
Smartest post I've seen yet on this topic.

Her erratic travel patterns, hard to believe backstory, and the bizarre details of this case tell us that this is not just a simple story of a naive tourist.

17 posted on 02/02/2013 4:26:02 PM PST by wideawake
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To: pepsionice

From the start, I thought there was something odd about the whole thing. She may have been involved in something criminal, but it could also be that she had met this Turkish man earlier on the internet and was going to Turkey to meet him, concealing it from her husband by covering her tracks with other travels and a story about a friend who couldn’t travel with her at the last minute.

Never underestimate the stupidity of women (I say this as one) when it comes to men.


18 posted on 02/02/2013 4:27:05 PM PST by livius
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19 posted on 02/02/2013 4:31:21 PM PST by RedMDer (HEY LIBS! GUN FREE ZONE T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE NOW. I DARE YA!)
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To: livius

“I would suspect there was more going on in this story than we are getting. “

Yes sounds like she was spook or something and the hubby just didn’t know.


20 posted on 02/02/2013 4:36:36 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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