{"id":169259,"date":"2020-09-28T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=169259"},"modified":"2020-09-23T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:00:37","slug":"us-journalist-andre-vltchek-dies-suspiciously-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/us-journalist-andre-vltchek-dies-suspiciously-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"US Journalist Andre Vltchek Dies Suspiciously in \u0130stanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_169260\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Andre-Vltchek.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169260\" class=\"wp-image-169260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Andre-Vltchek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Andre-Vltchek.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Andre-Vltchek-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-169260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Andre Vltchek \/ Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"desc\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Vltchek&#8217;s body has been taken to the Forensic Medicine Institution for autopsy.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><em>22 Sep 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Andre Vltchek (57), a journalist and author from the US, was found dead in a car this morning (September 22) in Karak\u00f6y, \u0130stanbul.Vltchek and his wife, Rossie Indira Vltcheck, traveled to \u0130stanbul from the Black Sea province of Samsun with a rented and chauffeured car, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>When they came in front of the hotel they would stay at around 5.30 a.m., his wife tried to wake Vltchek up but he didn&#8217;t respond, according to the report. She then called medical teams to the scene and they confirmed that Vltchek died.<\/p>\n<p>The police recorded the incident as a &#8220;suspicious death&#8221; and the journalist&#8217;s body was taken to the Forensic Medicine Institution for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul Chief Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office opened an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1962, Vltchek had later acquired US citizenship. As a journalist, author and filmmaker, he lived in several countries, including Chile, Peru, Mexico, Vietnam, Samoa and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bianet.org\/english\/media\/231369-us-journalist-andre-vltchek-dies-suspiciously-in-istanbul\" >Go to Original &#8211; bianet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Sep 2020 &#8211; Andre Vltchek (57), a journalist and author from the US, was found dead in a car this morning in \u0130stanbul. He and his wife had traveled from the Black Sea in a rented and chauffeured car. Vltchek&#8217;s body has been taken to the Forensic Medicine Institution for autopsy as a &#8220;suspicious death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":169260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2171,378,234,373,1142],"class_list":["post-169259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-andre-vltchek","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-news","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}