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Turkish police search for 'man named Taylan who contacted New York mother and arranged to meet her on Istanbul bridge before she vanished'


Sarai Sierra, 33, a photographer, took trip to Turkey on her own

Failed to board flight from Istanbul to Newark International ten days ago

Husband and brother now in Istanbul to assist police investigation

By LYDIA WARREN

Published: 16:49 EDT, 31 January 2013 | Updated: 11:52 EDT, 1 February 2013











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Missing: Police are looking for a person Sarai Sierra chatted with on the internet before she vanished

Turkish police are searching for a person named 'Taylan' who chatted online with Sarai Sierra, the New York mother missing in Turkey, and agreed to meet her a day before she vanished.

The 33-year-old mother has been missing since January 21 when she was supposed to return home to Staten Island from the two-week solo trip. Turkish police have set up a special unit to find her and her husband and brother have flown to Istanbul to help with the search.

According to local news reports, Sierra had exchanged emails with a person called 'Taylan' - although it is not known if this is his real name.

The two agreed to meet on Galata Bridge, which was around a mile from Sierra's hostel, Dogan news agency reported.

Authorities are now scouring security camera images near to the bridge to see if the meeting did in fact take place, the news agency said.

Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm confirmed to Staten Island Live that police in Turkey are searching for at least one man, but he did not know their relationship or if they had met.

'There's nothing remarkable about their conversation, but the fact that he's the last person she had any contact with makes him a person of interest,' Grimm said. 'That's a solid lead that needs to be followed up on.'

He added that he spoke with Sierra's husband Steven on Tuesday, and that the man was meeting with local authorities and had provided them with passwords to her social media sites.

Authorities have previously revealed that Sarai took trips out of Turkey to travel to Amsterdam and Munich during her two-week vacation.



Investigation: A Turkish security official leaves the hostel with Sierra's belongings on Tuesday



Search: Members of the Istanbul-based Association For Families With Lost Relatives hand out flyers with photos of Sierra, and other missing family members, in Istanbul on Thursday

They are trying to establish why the photographer, who had never travelled out of the U.S. before, took the various trips. Her husband said Sierra was in constant contact with him throughout the trip and knew she had travelled outside Turkey.

'These are things she made me well aware of,' he told Staten Island Live before leaving for Istanbul. 'She kept me 100 percent updated.'



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Turkey's Dogan news agency said police had learned that Sierra had travelled to Amsterdam on January 15 and then on to Munich on January 16, before returning to Istanbul on January 19.

Her husband continued: 'Every day while she was there she pretty much kept in contact with us, letting us know what she was up to, where she was going, whether it be through texting or whether it be through video chat, she was touching base with us.'

On Tuesday, Turkish police released security camera footage showing the missing mother at a mall near her hostel hours before she disappeared.



No trace: Sarai Sierra, 33, set off for Istanbul on January 7 and was last heard from on January 21


Apart: Sarai's husband Steven, pictured, said she had told him about her trips to other countries

Sierra can be seen eating lunch and walking through the mall on January 20 - a day before she was supposed to catch a flight back home - according to local reports.

Sarai was supposed to land in the U.S. on January 22, but she never arrived. Airline staff at Newark Airport told her husband she had never boarded her flight.

Her two sons, who are aged 11 and 9, have not been told their mother is missing.

A police official said authorities have been reviewing footage from around Istanbul's Taksim neighborhood - the city's main hub where she was staying at a hostel.



Several police teams have also been dispatched to surrounding neighborhoods to find possible clues and witnesses, the official said.

He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government rules that bar civil servants from speaking to reporters without prior authorization.



Last images: Sarai Sierra is seen on CCTV just before she vanished in January











Spotted: The footage from inside a mall close to her hostel shows her eating lunch in the cafeteria





Before she went missing, the mother-of-two told family members that she planned to take some photographs at Galata Bridge, a well-known tourist destination about a mile away from Taksim that spans the Golden Horn waterway.

Sierra had planned to go on the trip with a friend but ended up going by herself when the friend couldn't make it. She was looking forward to exploring her hobby of photography, her family said.

She was supposed to begin traveling home and was scheduled to arrive in New York City on Tuesday afternoon.

Her husband, Steven Sierra, waited for hours at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on the 22nd to pick her up. Airline attendants in Turkey said that his wife did not show up for the flight.



Mother: Sarai is pictured with her two sons, who are now 9 and 11. They were not told their mother was missing



Her belongings, including her passport, phone, phone chargers, and medical cards, were found in her room at a hostel in Beyoglu, Turkey. An official said authorities were therefore not able to track her by her cell phone.

The hostel's owner told Turkish authorities that he had last seen her last on Sunday night.

Mr Sierra told ABC News that her behavior is highly unusual, that she seemed perfectly content with her life, and that going off the radar is extremely out-of-character for her.

The heartbroken husband said that he's been married to her for more than 14 years after meeting her at a church youth group, adding that his love for her is ‘deeper than it is for any individual'.

He told WABC: ‘You have so many thoughts going through your mind, you don't know what to think, you don't know what to believe, you don't know what to expect, you don't know what will come out of this.'

Mystery: A view of the street with the hostel, in yellow, where Sarai Sierra, a New York City woman, left all her possessions before she disappeared

Skyline: Mrs Sierra posted a series of pictures transportation from staten island to newark airport Turkey on her Instagram account, including this one of Isanbul



Mrs Sierra's friend, Magalena Rodriguez, told the New York Daily News that the petite woman, who stands at 5ft2in and weighs only 110 pounds, has previously fainted without warning.

Ms Rodriguez fears her friend has fainted and could be hurt somewhere in the unfamiliar country.

Crime in Turkey is generally low and Istanbul is a relatively safe city for travelers, though there are areas where women would be advised to avoid going alone at night.

The Galata and the nearby Galata Bridge areas have been gentrified and are home to fish restaurants, cafes and boutiques.

VIDEO: Police release CCTV of Sarai Sierra in Istanbul mall




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