Overview
- A court in Bolu issued multiple life sentences to eleven defendants for their roles in the Grand Kartal Hotel blaze.
- Those convicted include the hotel owner and director, a deputy mayor of Bolu, and the local fire chief.
- Prosecutors tried 32 people over the disaster, with 20 held in pretrial detention before the verdict.
- The January 21 fire at the mountain resort killed 78 people and injured 137 during the winter holiday period.
- Investigations found no functioning fire alarm and noncompliant gas installations, while critics say national tourism officials were not prosecuted.