Overview
- Police closed the Harbour Suites in Fatih on Sunday and moved guests after inspecting rooms and collecting items for laboratory testing.
- Prosecutors opened a case for causing death by negligence as police pursue parallel lines of inquiry into possible pesticide exposure and foodborne toxins.
- Reports cite at least seven detainees, with some outlets saying eight, including the hotel owner or staff, pest-control workers and representatives of eateries the family visited.
- Authorities confirmed disinsection was performed on the building’s ground level; the deceased family stayed on the first floor, and other hospitalized guests were on the fourth.
- Two additional foreign guests were hospitalized on Saturday in non-life‑threatening condition, a third was admitted Sunday with a low pulse, and the surviving father remains in intensive care.