Overview
- The father died on November 17 in hospital after days on a ventilator, raising the Böcek family death toll to four.
- An Istanbul court ordered four of 11 detainees jailed pending trial, including a café owner and sellers of fast food and lokum the family visited.
- Prosecutors are pursuing charges of causing death by negligence, and police sealed the Harbour Suites Old City on November 16 and relocated 15 guests.
- Investigators are examining both the family’s street-food purchases and recent hotel disinfection; broadcaster AHaber reported suspicion of aluminum phosphide used as a fumigant.
- Officials said additional foreign guests from the hotel were hospitalized without life-threatening conditions, and President Erdoğan pledged a comprehensive investigation.