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Frantic search for American mom missing in Istanbul

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    Jonathan Hunt reports from New York

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An American mom suddenly missing oversees her relatives trying to or flying to Turkey to try to find her.

Her name it's a rise -- she went to Istanbul earlier this month was supposed to return home last week but she wasn't on a flight.

And her husband says he didn't your word from -- You know yes so many thoughts going through your mind you don't know what to think you don't know what to believe.

You know what to expect you know what's gonna come out of this and now police in Istanbul say they're checking surveillance video to try to figure out what did happen to her.

Her husband and his brother landed there just hours ago to join in the search and the state department's on it too.

Our consulate general in Istanbul in our embassy in all current.

RO working on the case and they are obviously in contact with the family and with Turkish authorities will relatives of the missing mom say they haven't told her her children about that yet.

And they're just desperately hoping that she turns up safe soon.

Of course at this hour there's just no way to know what really did happen to the -- The -- were chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt is tracking developments.

In New York tonight and there's it appears there's much more -- this Jonathan unscheduled movement along the way -- well a lot of questions yes.

Far as we can tell her family would told by -- -- Sierra.

And believed that this was purely a trip to Turkey purely to take photographs which was a hobby of -- But we now understand from a local police in Turkey.

That's -- rice Sierra took some on the schedule travel just a few days after arriving in Istanbul she traveled to Amsterdam.

From -- to Munich in Germany.

And from -- -- back to Istanbul Turkey just two days are arriving in Turkey just two days before she was due to fly back.

To the United States that.

The man who owns the -- -- -- which she rented a room in Istanbul says he hasn't seen her since January the twentieth he also tells local reporters that.

He is not in any way a suspect.

He is simply helping the police with their inquiries as they desperately try to find this woman -- -- this somewhere in her relatives are there to try to -- Yeah how a husband and her brother a -- arrived in Istanbul.

Today.

I'm the husband immediately upon landing spoke to local reporters issuing an affect an appeal for anyone to help in finding listen.

January 21.

Was a -- on the last time we heard from some -- Sierra last Monday as she was supposed to come back.

To America on January 22.

We have from her from -- so she's she's somewhere in Turkey season is -- She's missing and establish some -- -- we have to find him.

Now the brother and husband would due to meet with US officials within the last few hours in Istanbul -- we just got a statement.

From the woman who has become a spokeswoman of sorts for the family she tells us quote right now.

Now there are no new developments but the Turkish police looking day.

And night to find real mystery -- -- Jonathan -- -- say in the newsroom tonight Jonathan thank you.

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