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Hurriyet reports official statistics saying a third of women in Turkey feel unsafe or uneasy outside their homes. For men in Turkey it's 12 percent. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/one-third-of-turkish-women-feel-unsafe-uneasy-on-street.aspx?pageID=238&nID=43985&NewsCatID=341

Mm. Of course I meant Z's strange video 'confession'. <banging my head>

Absolutely agree. My 2nd last post was only because it seemed to me T's strange EDIT video END EDIT 'confession' made people again doubt his role. Thanks everybody for bringing all this latest info in. Shame on Daily Mail who still don't stop airing personal stuff about the poor family!

I'm glad your girlfriend has come out of this OK and wish her a safe trip home. Female visitors and expats in Istanbul have reported here that ignoring cat callers mostly makes them stop. That's not enough, society must condemn it. I think seeking help was the best thing to do when ignoring...

Z not the main perpetrator? Don't see that. His 'video confession' looks staged, yes. But it doesn't look part of a brilliantly orchestrated cover-up. Some journo paid him a bit for a drug-fuzzied soundbite. EDIT: I mean he remembers some and fantasizes some, his memory fuzzy from being on...

Hello all This seems to be coming to an end. Thanks to everybody, I've enjoyed reading all your posts. I've gone back and added thanks tags to a few more old posts that were especially important to my understanding which I had read before I registered on WS. I could not find again an early...

Thanks for digging this out. I agree, we could use some explanation as to what the landlord thought and did from the 21th to ... when did the sister call? However I believe it will turn out Turkish LE has looked into this before they let him off the hook. Maybe this guy is used to rather...

Hürriyet's wording suggests to me they want to stress there are no substantial injuries apart from head wounds. They say "a blow" or "a single blow", maybe because the coroner determined one specific blow as the cause of death, but for me the report doesn't rule out there being more head injuries.

Hi everybody, New prelim report from SS's autopsy in Hürriyet today, not official yet. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sarai-sierra-forensic-report-finds-no-evidence-of-rape-or-drugs.aspx?pageID=238&nID=42509&NewsCatID=341 New things to think about: "... it has emerged that the report...

Guys, I'll keep reading but also will not post much unless there's new info. If someone's dropping out here, I'd like to say thank you! Also big thanks to Chewy for her pictures from the NY coastline that Sarai knew well and that really seems to resemble the SS murder area in atmospheric...

That's OK with me, but I personally differentiate between Le-confirmed details, first-hand circumstantial experience of the location etc. from us all and existing online postings from Sarai and contacts (all good clues) and witness accounts or police findings only reported in tabloids (from my...

Possible new information. A journalist active on twitter posted a 40 min. TV feature from CNN Turk about the SS murder. Sorry if this is known already. http://tv.cnnturk.com/video/2013/02/26/programlar/5n1k/5n1k/2013-02-25T1930/index.html

Thanks SV, that's the report I remember, too. I'm a bit worried that Hürriyet (providing the most trustworthy reports so far, for me) never seemed to have followed up with LE info that would confirm this. EDIT: Couldn't find this exchange on Vatan's website, even though all reports quote Vatan...

Thanks ThinkHard. If anyone should know more about which of this information has been confirmed by whom, I'd be grateful to learn. Like Zarra has rightly said: The victim's habits (and to see if/where she broke any) are really important in this case. In that respect, I admit it's strange to...

Gotta take this report with a grain of salt, though (again, sigh). Would the local witness, guilty or not, ever say, verbatim: "Sierra was wandering around the city walls."?

Several recent posts have inspired this idea to explain why Sarai did go to the walls area. I haven't found out if it would fit the sketchy timeline. &#8211; Sarai wants an exciting photo adventure on her last day, possibly on the Asian side, like she told her sister. Perhaps hoping for...

It's possible. Would explain why Z hasn't been known for similar deeds before.

Someone chatted her up. Possibly innocently, not the killer. I believe LE will find out more or has already.

Wanted to mention the guidebooks to stress that it's possible to be unaware beforehand what they (the walls) are like, even with some research done. Once you are there, sure ... And I will not forget that you said earlier it was already odd that she walked that first piece from Serkeci to the...

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