Overview
- Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine says early findings point to chemical poisoning at the hotel as more probable than food poisoning.
- All four members of the Böcek family, visiting from Hamburg, have died, with the father succumbing on Nov. 17 after the mother and two children.
- Authorities are examining whether aluminium phosphide used in a ground‑floor bedbug treatment may have spread through a bathroom vent to the family’s room.
- The hotel was evacuated and sealed after two additional guests reported similar symptoms, and investigators collected samples from rooms and items for analysis.
- Istanbul prosecutors have detained 11 people linked to food outlets, the hotel and a pest‑control firm, as forensic and toxicological testing continues to determine a definitive cause.