Overview
- Officials confirmed the father died Monday after his wife and two children died late last week following sudden illness during their Istanbul stay.
- Investigators are examining phosphine‑producing pesticides, including aluminium phosphide, and whether fumes traveled through a bathroom ventilation shaft from a ground‑floor treatment.
- The hotel has been evacuated and sealed, and forensic teams collected items from rooms and samples from eateries for analysis at the Forensic Medicine Institute.
- Authorities have detained 11 people, including the hotel owner, two staff members, pest‑control workers and several food vendors, with arrest warrants reported for some and charges not yet announced.
- At least two other hotel guests were hospitalized with similar symptoms, and a fuller forensic report is expected later this month.