Dozens of people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, forcing desperate holidaymakers to leap from windows to escape from the flames and smoke.

The fire in Turkey’s Kartalkaya area started on the restaurant floor of the Grand Kartal Hotel, authorities said.

Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Wednesday. A deputy mayor of the northwestern Bolu province,

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the number of suspects detained in connection with the deadly hotel fire at a ski resort has increased to 14

A large fire broke out in an industrial building in Istanbul on Friday, state media reported. The fire burned the top floor of a 1,000 square meter textile workshop in Sultanbeyli, a district of Istanbul,

in Bolu province’s Koroglu mountains, some 185 miles east of Istanbul. The fire occurred during the schools semester break, when hotels in the region are packed. “We are in deep pain.

A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people.

The number of suspects detained in connection with a deadly hotel fire at a ski resort in Turkey has risen to 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

At least 76 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular Turkish ski resort hotel, leaving some to jump out of windows. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there.

President Tayyip Erdogan declared Wednesday a day of national mourning following the tragedy at Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalya

Kartalkaya is a popular ski resort in the Koroglu mountains, some 300km east of Istanbul. Bolu is a city in northern Turkey, and administrative centre of the Bolu Province and of Bolu District ...

The tourism minister has blamed the Bolu Municipality for the fire that claimed 78 lives at the Kartalkaya ski resort, while the mayor argues that the ministry is responsible because the resort was designated a tourism center.