Overview
- Police detained three additional suspects, including a hotel official and two people who disinfected a ground-floor room, raising total arrests to seven.
- The Fatih district hotel was cleared of guests as authorities seized items for laboratory analysis and collected drinking-water samples.
- Two other hotel guests, reported as tourists from Italy and Morocco, were hospitalized with similar symptoms but are not in life-threatening condition, and the father remains in intensive care.
- Food poisoning is the leading hypothesis; a street-food outlet the family visited was sealed and vendors tied to stuffed mussels, kokoreç and sweets were earlier arrested on negligent-homicide allegations.
- Cause of death is not yet confirmed; state media reported few clues from the initial autopsy, while Cumhuriyet cited stomach-wall bleeding without signs of external violence, with toxicology still pending.