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Friends and co-workers of a 50-year-old British woman working for a London-based media training charity have called for an urgent investigation into her death at Istanbul's Ataturk airport.
The death of Jacqueline Sutton, the acting Iraq director for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), follows the death of her predecessor in a car bombing in Baghdad.
The IWPR said Sutton was found dead at Ataturk Airport on Saturday. It said the former journalist had been on her way to her base in Irbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said Sutton took her own life inside a washroom at the airport after missing her connecting flight. The agency reported, without citing a source, that she became distraught because she didn't have money to buy a new ticket to Iraq.
Turkey's private Dogan news agency said Sutton hanged herself with shoelaces from the hook of the bathroom door, also without citing a source.
In an autobiographical statement published on an Australian blog, Sutton said she had been "detained as a spy and deported" while working in Eritrea.
"I think I had PTSD from the detention so I was unable to cope," she said. "Now there would be counselling, but back then I was given Prozac and told to soldier on."
But Sutton's colleagues and friends rejected claims of suicide.
"None of us believes she took her own life," said Vanessa Farr. "But all of us know she was attracting negative attention for her absolute refusal, before UN officials, politicians and warlords alike, to stay silent in the face of what she was witnessing women suffer."
Farr said Sutton had recently helped win a US$1 million grant for the IWPRnstitute of War and Peace Reporting to counter the violent misogyny of the Islamic State group.
Sutton, 50, was a former producer and broadcaster with the BBC and held various positions with humanitarian organisations and the United Nations.
Agence France-Presse, Associated Press


Calls for probe into death of Iraq-based UK aid worker found dead at Istanbul airport

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said Jacqueline Sutton (left) took her own life inside a washroom at the Ataturk  airport after missing her connecting flight.

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