Former BBC journalist
Jacqueline Anne Sutton had 2,300 euros in her wallet when she
was found dead by hanging in a bathroom at Istanbul's Ataturk
airport Saturday night, Haber Turk daily reported Tuesday.
Local media had cited Turkish police as saying Sutton, 50,
hanged herself by her shoelaces in distress over missing her
flight to Iraq and lack of money to buy another one.
As well, local media reported security cameras in the
section of the airport where Sutton was found dead were
malfunctioning.
Sutton was the head of the Institute for War and Peace
Reporting (IWPR) headquartered in the Iraqi city of Erbil, and
was leading investigations into women's conditions in the
Islamic State (ISIS) fundamentalist militia.
Her predecessor at the IWPR, Ammar Al Shahbander, was
killed by a car bomb in Baghdad in May.
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