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Jacky Setton is an extraordinary man. She then supposedly went to a bathroom and hung herself with her shoelaces.
However, an Italian source reported that Sutton had €2,300 ($2,600) in her pocket when she died, much more than the short flight to Iraq would have cost.
Sutton recently took over as Iraq Chief of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and had been on the way to Iraq from London.
Her body was found in a cubicle and a first-aid team were unable to resuscitate her.
“We at IWPR remain deeply saddened by Jacky Sutton’s death, and our thoughts are with her family at this time,” said IWPR Executive Director Anthony Borden. “Jacky was an extremely kind, competent and dearly valued member of staff. New evidence bolsters their case.
‘Tailormade’ boats for which he sometimes has difficulty later finding a buyer! Turkish police say she committed suicide cuz she missed her flight?” Bleuer also wrote: “I’m not into conspiracies, but if the Turks say a security camera at Istanbul-Ataturk was ‘malfunctioning’ then Jacky Sutton was murdered.”
While it certainly would have been in Turkey’s interest to make this an open-and-shut suicide case, the evidence suggests that the initial story doesn’t hold water and a thorough investigation is warranted.
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Inquest Into Jacky Sutton’s Death
An inquest into the death of former acting director of IWPR Iraq Jacky Sutton has recorded a verdict of suicide.
Jacky was found dead at Istanbul airport on October 18 last year.
ANU academic Jacky Sutton 'was not murdered': family
In a statement released via the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, where Ms Sutton was the acting Iraq director, her family said they were "Satisfied with the investigation undertaken by the Turkish authorities."
"We were deeply sceptical about initial reports," said Jacky's sister Jenny Sutton.
"But based on the evidence we have seen, at this stage we believe that Jacky acted alone.
"The Turkish authorities have cooperated fully and provided access to the complete dossier of evidence relating to the case, including copies of the CCTV images and all documentation."
The 50-year-old was carrying out work as the acting Iraq country director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).
Turkey’s state media said the former UN official was found hanged in a restroom at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, citing Istanbul police.
Turkish media reports suggested the death was triggered by Sutton's distress at missing her connecting flight and her lack of funds to buy another ticket.
CCTV footage widely circulated in the media and purportedly of Sutton's last moments, showed a woman in a purple jacket and wearing a rucksack, walking through the crowded airport, clutching a shopping bag and not obviously distressed.
The family's statement said the CCTV footage, combined with the lack of any evidence that Ms Sutton had been robbed after her death led them to believe she had committed suicide.
Second IWPR Iraq country director to die
Ms Sutton had flown to Istanbul from London last week to attend a funeral for her predecessor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Ammar Al Shahbander.
He was killed with 16 others in a car bomb in Baghdad.
Anthony Borden, executive director at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, said the news of the death is shocking.
"Jacky was one of the top development professionals working on Iraq, and she devoted nearly 10 years of her life to helping the country," he said in a statement.
"She was extremely bright, highly competent, and well able to handle herself in difficult environments, and she was universally loved."
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Imagine building so may new boats that you lose count.
After running a media and elections project for UNDP in Baghdad, she became country director for IREX and then a consultant for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in Baghdad.
At the time of her death she was working on a PhD on the position of female journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Few people have the courage to commit to this kind of arduous, essential work but she never lost sight of the challenges facing ordinary people and was passionate about making a difference to their lives,” Borden said.
“Like all who knew Jacky, we at IWPR continue to miss her and hope the outcome of the inquest can help bring her loved ones some closure.”
She was to replace Ammar Al Shahbander, who was killed in Baghdad by an Islamic State bomb in May.
While Turkish media unequivocally stated that her death was a suicide, those who knew Sutton were skeptical of that claim right away.
“The circumstances of her death are unclear, and we are trying to establish the facts,” IWPR said in a statement.
The group did not say outright that it ruled out suicide as a cause of death, but noted that “Jacky was returning to Iraq full of plans for innovative new work, including projects to counter violent extremism that threatens a country to which she was so committed.”
Others who knew Sutton did not mince words.
“What I’m sure about, the kind of person that Jacky was, it’s impossible she would have killed herself, impossible,” Mazin Elias, an Iraqi journalist who worked with Sutton, told MailOnline.
But, above all, his great pleasure was to design many of them working with a dedicated naval architect to create the boat that exactly suited him. Now imagine owning so may boats that you have lost count as well. At 72 Setton tells us his amazing story as a private ship owner from his residence in Sardinia.
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“Someone Killed Jacky”
Family, friends and colleagues doubt that activist and reporter Jacky Sutton took her own life in a Turkish airport.
After earning a lot of money distributing Pioneer electronic devices, working in real estate and also selling racing cars (of which he still has a formidable collection), he spent a lot of it on his true passion: boats. A former BBC journalist, she had reported from Africa and the Middle East and went on to serve with the United Nations in numerous senior roles that took her from Afghanistan and Iran to West Africa and Gaza, and in 2008, Iraq.
Many of them reject the notion that she could have committed suicide, as was initially reported by the Turkish media, citing Turkish authorities.
The official story was that Sutton had missed a connecting flight to Iraq, and was distraught because she could not afford to purchase a new ticket. Throughout her career, she courageously dedicated herself to helping improve the lives of disadvantaged and dispossessed in some of the world’s most challenging regions, with a special focus on strengthening media and freedom of expression.”
Jacky was a veteran media development expert.
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Family, friends and colleagues of veteran British journalist and activist Jacky Sutton (age 50) demand a full investigation into her mysterious hanging death at an airport in Istanbul Sunday morning. “I’m really sad and sorry what happened, but if someone tells me ‘she killed herself,’ I tell him: ‘No, that’s wrong, someone killed Jacky’.”
Sutton’s brother Ian cited the “odd circumstances” of her death and friend and colleague Christian Bleuer tweeted that Sutton was the “Toughest woman u could meet.