Cagla Yalcin
Age: 26
Summary: Turkish English teacher who
was hospitalized in critical condition for nearly a week from severe
burns suffered up to over 90 percent of her body in the Sharm El Sheikh
bombings during
a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by an extremist Islamist
organization on July 23, 2005 in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El
Sheikh on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in which a total of
about 90 people were killed as a result of the attacks including her
husband Bilgehan Yalcin and over 200 others were injured, making the
attack the deadliest
terrorist action in Egypt's history since the 1997 Luxor massacre that
killed 58 foreign tourists.
Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in the bomb blasts
Born: July 11, 1979
Died: July 28, 2005
Location: Ankara, Turkey
