Recent content by StCirq

I can't get english's link to work even if I paste it in, but maybe this is the same? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298098/The-final-horrific-moments-New-York-mom-Sarai-Sierras-life-captured-security-camera-fights-life-Turkish-beggar-admits-killed-her.html Not sure if i can bring...

I'm still very curious, but the fact is, there are no new data anywhere I can find, and I've been checking all kinds of European as well as American sources. And to clarify one point, I think LE retracted the statement about Ziya T being the "number one suspect" a few days ago and said they...

<<Ziya was surveilled in Hatay main bus terminal, wasn't he? >> I believe I read that somewhere, but can't remember where...and given all the mistranslations and just plain bad information we've seen, not sure it would be accurate. The other thing I remember reading is that the LE missed...

<<This is an interesting idea, that Ziya could have bought a ticket and not used it.>> But there have been reports from the bus driver that Ziya was on the bus, sat quietly for the whole ride, and wasn't disruptive in any way.

There was another woman's body recovered from the same spot on 21 February Really? Who? What? Details, please!

If this is one of the most brutal murders ever in Istanbul, possibly in Turkey, as so many have been saying, wouldn't there be the equivalent of a blizzard of WANTED! posters between Istanbul and the Syrian border and maybe along the likely route to Iran? Not to mention photos of Z all over the...

Interesting article here: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1436&fulltext=1#.USjejOZkebk.twitter First I've heard of the IG "5shotchallenge."

I agree, but that assumes Americans don't speak other languages, which is for the most part right. I kind of resent that, though. I spent the greater part of my youth learning other languages and do not generally visit other cultures where I don't speak a language that the locals speak. I have...

Gosh, I've been traveling all my life and never thought I needed to go anyplace that people spoke English. What I thought was - I better learn their language! But then, I'm the sorry type who's traveled all over the world by herself, left spouse and kids behind, went to North Africa and Kenya...

<<Maybe she asked some people she would like to go some place very different and she liked adventure. So they suggested Istanbul. Who knows?>> I still think there was some connection, through her brother David, and through her church, with Turkey to begin with, as in before she started making...

<< lots of major cities in Europe look down on sneakers>> I realize this is totally irrelevant to the case, but so is discus throwing, and I dislike these types of generalizations. Europeans may have disdain for those honking white trainer-type sneakers a lot of Americans sport, but just go...

But would it be normal for the LE to release a video like that and claim it was the last footage they had of her if they weren't sure of it or actually knew otherwise? I think a lot of my distrust about this case lies with the LE and the relationship between the LE and the Turkish media. I...

<<From what I've observed, girls/women remove their earrings before engaging in fisticuffs>> Are you kidding? You're encountering a rapist and take the time to take off your earrings? What the heck have you actually "observed" with regard to this, I'd love to know Do you put on lipstick...

And what about her time in Munich? I spent about an hour today googling in German trying to find ANYTHING about it, as I speak/read enough German to be able to follow a news story....nothing, absolutely nothing. Same with French news, Dutch news, Italian news, you name it. It's very frustrating...

Regardless of the way that Turkish women dress, which is myriad and fascinating and fashionable, and I think from my own experience of having lived 3/4 time in the USA and 1/4 time in Europe for the past 20 years, I think SS dressed appropriately for a visit to Turkey. She didn't scream out...