Overview
- Turkish media citing the forensic institute report say a chemical exposure at the family’s hotel is more likely than food poisoning as the cause of death.
- Attention has shifted to a bedbug treatment in a ground-floor room, with reports naming aluminum phosphide and a possible spread through bathroom ventilation.
- The Harbour Suites Old City was evacuated and sealed, and authorities have detained 11 suspects including hotel staff, pest-control workers and street-food vendors.
- Four vendors face arrest warrants on negligent homicide charges even as some food samples were later deemed consumable, and broader testing of hotel samples continues.
- Two additional guests from the same hotel were treated for similar symptoms, and a definitive forensic report is expected later in November.