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A vehicle transports the body of journalist Andre Wilczek
DHA through AP
Russian-American journalist Andre Wilczek was found dead in his rented car shortly after arriving in Istanbul.
Vilcek, 57, and his wife, Rossi Indira, and their two drivers were returning from Samsun, where they had stayed for nine days before heading to Istanbul.
According to Turkish security sources, when approaching a hotel in the Karakϊy area, Rossi Indira Vilcek noticed that her husband was not moving. She called for first aid and the doctors confirmed the death of the journalist.
Indira Rossi Vilcek told the doctors that her husband had paralysis in one leg, suffered from diabetes and was taking two types of medications.
Prosecutors in Istanbul have launched an investigation into his death and the police have cordoned off the area around Wilcek’s vehicle. According to Turkish media, both his wife and the two drivers will be questioned in the case.
Wilcek, a US citizen born in the former Soviet Union, has covered dozens of war zones and conflicts from Iraq, Peru to Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the East. . From time to time he wrote articles for the German magazine Der Spiegel, but also for The Guardian.
He described himself on his website as a writer, philosopher, filmmaker and investigative journalist, but also as a “revolutionary, internationalist, and world traveler fighting against Western imperialism and the Western regime that has imposed itself on the world.”
He is the author of several books, including On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to the Drone War, with linguist and academic Noam Chomsky.
