Family and friends bid a tearful farewell to Ferda Apak and her daughter, Vedia Nil Apak, at an emotional funeral held Thursday in Istanbul. Both lost their lives in the tragic fire that swept through a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort in the northwest of the country on1.

Witnesses say guests at a ski resort hotel in Turkey tried to escape a deadly fire with ropes and sheets hung from windows.

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,