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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>Kristina Novitskaya, 30, was discovered at her apartment in the Bodrum resort </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>She was was found in a sitting position on a chair in the middle of the room</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>Police say the front door to her apartment was locked with the key inside and the windows were also secured from the inside</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>There was no trace of a struggle, police said</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>Local officials believe it was suicide &#8211; that she had become depressed, solitary and suicidal over the pandemic and killed herself </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>Her friends say it&#8217;s impossible &#8211; &#8216;I don&#8217;t believe in these versions. I think they are trying to cover up for someone important,&#8217; said one</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#463b3c"><strong>The Ukrainian lived in Bodrum working as an interpreter and dance instructor</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kristina-Novitskaya-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366749"/><figcaption><strong>Kristina Novitskaya, [photo], was discovered dead at her home in the Bodrum resort on the Aegean coast on Saturday. </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A Ukrainian interpreter has been found dead with her hands cuffed behind her back and a plastic bag over her head at her apartment in Turkey.<br>Kristina Novitskaya, 30, was discovered at her home in the Bodrum resort on the Aegean coast on Saturday. She had died a few days earlier.<br>The front door was locked with the key inside, the windows were also secured from the inside and there was no trace of any struggle.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kristina-Novitskaya-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366750" width="593" height="809"/><figcaption><strong>Novitskaya, 30, is believed to have killed herself, by local police but her friends say it cannot be. She was found with her hands cuffed behind her back and a plastic bag over her head. She had died a few days earlier</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Local police say the main line inquiry is suicide, but her friends say that &#8216;life-loving&#8217; and &#8216;cheerful&#8217; Novitskaya would not have ended her own life.<br>However, they added that she was &#8216;secretive&#8217; about her private life in Turkey, where she lived and worked as an interpreter and dance instructor. &#8216;We do not believe that she committed suicide,&#8217; a friend told Obozrevatel media in Kyiv.<br>Reports say Turkish police believe she had become depressed at a lack of work due to the pandemic, yet the precise cause of death has not been revealed.<br>After her family, friends and neighbours could not reach her, they alerted police. Her body was found in a sitting position on a chair in the middle of the room.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ambulance-removes-the-body-of-Kristina-Novitskaya-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366752" width="630" height="348"/><figcaption><strong>An ambulance pulling out of the apartment complex in Bodrum after dance instructor and interpreter Kristina Novitskaya was discovered dead inside her locked apt on Saturday</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She was handcuffed, and a plastic bag was on her head, say reports.<br>Ropes, charcoal, and a scarf were also found at the scene but no cause of death has been announced so far.<br>The corpse has been sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy.<br>The door was locked from inside, and a key was inside the keyhole, say reports citing Turkish police.<br>Windows were locked and there was no trace of a fight. <br>A video shows the exterior of her home, and the security guards&#8217; office at the complex.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kristina-Novitskaya-10.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366757"/><figcaption><strong>Novitskaya a Ukrainian transplant, lived in Bodrum and worked as an interpreter and dance instructor</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kristina-Novitskaya-9.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366756"/><figcaption>Ukrainian press spoke to friends of Kristina Novitskaya who say it is not possible she would have killed herself</figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Novitskaya, a graduate of Kiev National Linguistic University where she studied oriental languages, spoke Turkish fluently and worked as a professional interpreter.<br>&#8216;She was an incredibly kind, open-hearted, sweet person who would never get into a conflict and always helped others,&#8217; said a friend from her student days.<br>&#8216;She was quite secretive about her private life. Everyone who knew Kristina is deeply shocked. We do not believe that she committed suicide.&#8217;<br>Another friend said: &#8216;True she didn&#8217;t post about her love life on social media, but she was always so open, so full of life and happy.&#8217;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kristina-Novitskaya-7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366747"/><figcaption><strong>Novitskaya posing for a social media post, Friends say &#8216;She was quite secretive about her private life. Didn&#8217;t post about her love life on social media, but she was always so open, so full of life and happy.&#8217;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kristina-Novitskaya-8.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-366748"/><figcaption><strong>Novitskaya is seen posing on a balcony. Her friends have dismissed as &#8216;strange&#8217; the reports that she had become depressed, solitary and suicidal over the pandemic</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The friends dismissed as &#8216;strange&#8217; the reports that she had become depressed, solitary and suicidal over the pandemic.<br>They hinted at a VIP associate in Turkey but gave no details.<br>&#8216;This is a strange version indeed,&#8217; said one friend. &#8216;Kristina had family, and her mother is in Kiev. There was always another route to take which was to return home. Turkey had quite a spell of lively times when tourists returned in summer, Kristina would have found a job.<br>&#8216;I don&#8217;t believe in these versions. I think they are trying to cover up for someone important.&#8217; ;<br>Turkish police reported that CCTV cameras showed no visits since a food delivery on 31 December. Her body was found on Saturday.<br>Her mother was travelling to Turkey from Kyiv.</p>

Mystery surrounds death of female interpreter Kristina Novitskaya, 30, found dead in handcuffs with a plastic bag on her head in her apartment in Turkey – the front door and windows all were locked from the inside
