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Jacky Sutton, the story of a cover up that might end badly

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The journalism and humanitarian world is weeping for the sudden death of Jacky Sutton, 50 year-old. She was a well respected researcher and journalist. She travelled throughout the world, looking for the truth and trying to help people in need. Nobody who knew her believe she committed suicide and everybody is asking for an international investigation. I wrote about it in the paper edition of Corriere della Sera.

Let’s start with what we really know: Jacky Sutton died at Ataturk airport, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday early morning. She was found with shoe laces around her neck by three Russian tourists in a bathroom. She was passing by the Turkish hub, on her way to Erbil, Iraq, from London. Her plane landed at 10 pm and her connecting flight was at 12 am. For some unclear reasons she lost it.

Conveniently enough the CCTV were not working in the area where she was waiting and around the bathroom where she died. But others filmed her while passing security and with a black bag while walking around the airport. From the footage I have seen, it’s impossible to determine anything about her shoes. Although the footage can say very little, at first she doesn’t seem in distress.

 

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Letter from Kurdistan-2 “Look how my family is living”

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“Look how my family is living”

These pictures were sent to me on Wednesday evening. They were taken in Zakho, Iraq. The town, which is in the Kurdistan region, is at the border with Turkey and it is currently hosting several Yazidi families who escaped from ISIS in the Sinjar area. Thousands of them just want to leave Iraq for good. “We don’t have any future here. We are not muslim and we will always be harassed” said Fahrani over the phone from an IDP camp.

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Do you want an ISIS gadget? Buy it in Istanbul

 

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In the working class district of Bagcilar, Istanbul, there is a shop called Islami Giyim, or Islamic Clothing. At first glance it might seem like any other store not worth paying any attention to. The reality is quite different.  This is the only known ISIS (or ISIL) merchandising store in Istanbul. T-shirts, hats, and flags are displayed next to books and plates. Twitter users have posted pictures calling for some sort of measures to be taken against the store. So far no actions have been reported.  The shop have been selling  clothes for months and Turkish media call it an example of the growing influence of the terrorist group in the country. Is Turkey fighting ISIS?

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Benedetta Argentieri

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