According to the newspaper, the prosecutor is investigating the death of a journalist who was born in Russia to a Czech father and a Russian-Chinese mother as a “suspicious death”.
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According to Turkish media, Vltchek traveled with his wife in a rental car with two drivers from the northern Turkish city of Samsun to Istanbul, where his wife wanted to wake him up in front of the hotel in the morning, but found him dead. His body was taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine and an Istanbul prosecutor began an investigation.
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War correspondent and investigator
Vltchek was an investigative journalist and, according to the AP, he also reported on areas of war, such as Syria, Iraq and Rwanda. He has traveled to hundreds of countries and written articles for various media, including the German magazine Der Spiegel and the British daily The Guardian.
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Vltchek also published a number of books, some of which were also published in Czech, such as Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to the Drone War, in which he discusses with the American left-wing philosopher Noam Chomsky, and the book The Empire Lies.
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He has also made several short documentaries, including about the 2010 earthquake in Chile and about Somali refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp in the Kenyan city of Dadaab.
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On his website, Vltchek characterized himself, among other things, as a writer, philosopher, filmmaker, investigative journalist and revolutionary and globetrotter, who fights against Western imperialism.
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