By Catherine Haig.
She was an American Tourist in Turkey who had lost her job back in Staten Island.
She was separated from her husband of 14 years; her two children and she were struggling on the little money she did have.
Her husband is a NYC bus driver.
He is 40. She was 33 years old. Her children were two boys; one 9 and the other 11 years old.
She had gone bankrupt in 2005. When she did work she only made $450 a week as a receptionist in a Chiropractor’s office.
The Economy in America has been a disaster for most; for this mother of 2 small boys she was struggling like most.
In her down time she fostered a hobby: she fancied herself an amateur Photographer but she never used a professional SLR camera
Or a Digital Camera.
Instead she used an Iphone and an IPAD but how could she have afforded either when she was out of work and separated from her husband?
She decided to go to Turkey to further her skills as a Photographer.
She also joined Instagram on line where she met people from all over the world who loved her pictures. She had a following of 6,000 people.
She called herself @memyself_sarai and she spoke with some people from Turkey – mostly men.
On Jan 7, 2013, with her husband and family consent, she left America on a flight to Turkey for a 3 week vacation and spent $10 thousand dollars in the process. Where did she get that money?
Her husband and family said they spoke to her numerous times during the day on skype or through her computer emails. She stayed in Turkey for 2 weeks before jetting to Amsterdam and Germany and only stayed a few hours before returning to Turkey.
I have read by many personal accounts how “safe” Turkey is to travel in. My late cousin, Haig Nargizian had to travel there several years before he passed away and was “detained” by Turkish Police because he was an Armenian and an outspoken critic of the YOUNG TURKS and PRESENT TURKISH GOVERNMENT who continue to deny the genocide of Armenians by the Turks from 1915-1920. Now Turkey points fingers at Armenia telling lies that it was Armenians who were the aggressors AND that it was Armenians who murdered 2.5 million Turks in that period. These are lies. With my cousin, Haig; they interrogated him for days and then sent him back home 20 hours by plane to re route at JFK in NYC to go to Armenian through a different longer route than through Turkey. My cousin Haig was not a spy. He loved being Armenian. He loved Armenians and Armenia and he hated the Turks. I also, hate the Turks and I don’t care who knows it.
There is not enough money in the world to make me like them…EVER. They continue to be disgusting examples of what is wrong with Islam and the extremist views of men vs women in the world. Every day, Every Week in TURKEY a woman is killed or goes missing never to be found and the Turkish Police could care less.
Two of the biggest businesses in modern day Turkey is Human Traffiking of mostly Icelandic women, boys and girls as young as 8 years old sold into slavery by their parents and some of these people are stolen from Africa as were their ancestors who slaved in America before the Civil War. The 2nd biggest industry in Turkey today is drug export and although the Turks deny that SARIA SIERRA, the 33 year old woman who went missing in Jan 2013 and turned up dead in Turkey was not a drug courier; I am hard pressed to believe otherwise. The Turkish Police continue to berate our American FBI saying they are “intruding on their case” but what our American FBI is doing is directing the case from the American Point of View.
First Mrs. Sierra was said to have been found fully clothed but stabbed in all parts of her body. Then it was just her stomach. Then it was she was discovered in a cave under the bridge she wanted to photograph. Then she was not raped but the man she met with from her Instagram connection was first a friend, now he’s a lover? First he says they were just friends but when the Police took his DNA and sperm; he counters that they had seedy sex in a bar bathroom? I can’t see it. I’m sorry. The woman, Sierra, doesn’t fit any kind of profile like this and seems very conservative up to the point where she arrived in Turkey.
Why would her husband, Steven, allow her to travel there alone? I ask this question often and get pissed off women travelers yelling at me and telling me to travel aboard is safe and why would I dare ask that question. I ask it because on 9/11/12 American’s Libyan Embassy was stormed by Muslim extremists hell bend on killing Americans and took out 4 of our people in Benghazi; a place that looks like a desert pit in the middle of the Devil’s Triangle. Maybe Mrs. Sierra was not there merely as a tourist like the American FBI is now saying. Maybe she was there for another reason.
This is what I think happened to Mrs. Sierra and at 33 years old women in America still think “things in the world cannot touch me because I am an American and I am free”. Mrs. Sierra was free of her husband, free of her kids and was desperate for money. She took up with strangers online from her 6000 followers in Instagram and one of them misled her into thinking she was going to be paid as a courier for drug running. When she asked for her money and told them she was going home they told her “you owe us $10, 000 dollars. You cannot go. You need to pay off your debt.” She balked and tried to run but they took her purse and took her electronics out, wiped them clean and tortured her. She had sex but to the Turks there is little difference between sex, rape and love. For Turks it is much the same thing. So the shill, the man who first contacted Mrs. Sierra, a handsome Turk named Talon, he told the Police they had sex but in reality she was probably raped repeatedly by the gang of men who kidnap people in Turkey and force them into sexual slavery. She was missing for a week and then she was killed and that was probably because she knew too much and they needed to get rid of her.
First she was clothed when they found her and then, finally, she had been wrapped in a blanket wearing her jacket, hat and jumper and her torn jeans were nearby her battered bludgeoned body. She was killed by a blow to the head but I am sure these murderers (and, yes, I believe it is more than just one man who murdered Sarai Sierra) tortured her extensively before they mercilessly killed her and dumped her body like trash in that cave to be found.
Others write on their blogs that she was a hired spy by the American CIA and posing as a drug runner. THIS I cannot believe is true but really how desperate do you have to be to go somewhere alone, a foreign country, alone, a woman alone? But worst than this how could her husband allow her to leave without him going with her? I just don’t understand the husband who keeps saying “he is devastated”; “he knew where she was and why”.
We may never know the truth about the death of Sarai Sierra because the Turks are scared to death that America will throw penalties upon them and kill their tourism. Please remember America is not the safest country in the world but would you go to NYC alone? I wouldn’t if I didn’t know the area; I’d take someone with me. As it is whenever I interview for work in NYC I am armed to the teeth with pepper spray and mace and switchblades and tazers and the reason for that is “you never know who you are meeting”.
RIP Sarai Sierra. I hope we find out what happened to you…Really!
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