2026-06-26 11:39:31 美东夏令时 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
据官方媒体报道，土耳其一家法院周五判处三名害虫防治公司员工和一名酒店老板有罪，他们因导致一家四口德国游客在伊斯坦布尔度假期间杀虫剂中毒身亡，刑期从12年到18年不等。
2026年11月，土耳其裔德国人博切克一家入住伊斯坦布尔法提赫区的老城港酒店后身体不适。
他们因恶心呕吐打车前往医院，随后于11月12日返回酒店。次日他们被救护车送往医院，6岁的卡迪尔·穆罕默德和3岁的妹妹马萨尔不治身亡。他们的母亲西吉德姆于11月14日去世，父亲塞尔韦特于11月17日离世。
调查人员最初怀疑这家人在奥塔科伊滨水区街区食用街头食品后引发食物中毒。但在土耳其媒体报道该酒店当时正遭遇臭虫侵扰，且杀虫剂气体疑似通过浴室通风管道渗入他们的房间后，这一推测很快被推翻。
这起死亡事件引发了外界对土耳其酒店安全标准的担忧，并促使各方呼吁加强监管。2025年1月，土耳其西北部一处滑雪度假村酒店发生火灾，造成78人死亡。
据国家电视台土耳其广播电视公司报道，伊斯坦布尔法院认定酒店老板哈坎·奥拉克因过失致人多重死亡罪名成立，判处其13年4个月监禁。DSS害虫防治公司的老板泽基·基西及其儿子塞尔坎·基西各被判处18年监禁，公司员工多安·恰费罗格鲁被判12年监禁。
四人预计都将对判决提起上诉。
检查人员在酒店缴获的毛巾、口罩和棉签样本中发现了杀虫剂磷化氢气体的痕迹。磷化氢是一种剧毒物质，可引发严重呼吸道疾病和器官损伤。
土耳其《自由报》援引调查人员的话称，酒店一楼的一个房间曾被喷洒药剂以治理臭虫侵扰，有毒气体可能通过浴室通风管道蔓延到了一楼的这家人的房间。该报报道称，警方在封锁酒店前，从床单、枕头、水瓶和毛毯上采集了样本。
2025年11月24日，土耳其伊斯坦布尔，老城港酒店的正门被封锁。美联社照片/埃姆拉赫·居雷尔
这家现已关闭的老城港酒店是众多廉价酒店之一，距离蓝色清真寺和圣索菲亚大教堂等旅游景点步行可达。
伊斯坦布尔地区卫生主管阿卜杜拉·埃姆雷·居内尔在调查期间在X平台发帖称：“我向逝去的家属表示哀悼，并向他们的亲属致以慰问。”
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4 people convicted over insecticide deaths of tourist family during reported bedbug infestation at Istanbul hotel
2026-06-26 11:39:31 EDT / CBS/AP
A Turkish court on Friday convicted three pest control company workers and a hotel owner over the deaths of a family of four from Germany who were poisoned by insecticide while on vacation in Istanbul, sentencing them to between 18 and 12 years in prison, state media reported.
The Turkish-German Bocek family were staying at the Harbour Suites Old City hotel in Istanbul’s Fatih district in November when they fell ill.
They took a taxi to a hospital complaining of nausea and vomiting before returning to the hotel on Nov. 12. The following day they were taken to a hospital by ambulance, where 6-year-old Kadir Muhammet and his sister Masal, 3, died. Their mother, Cigdem, died on Nov. 14, while their father, Servet, died on Nov. 17.
Investigators had initially suspected food poisoning after the family ate street food in the waterside neighborhood of Ortakoy. But that was quickly dismissed after Turkish media reported that their hotel was dealing with a bedbug infestation, with the insecticide gas believed to have seeped into their room through a bathroom ventilation duct.
Their deaths raised concerns about hotel safety standards in Turkey and prompted calls for stricter oversight. In January 2025, a fire swept through a ski resort hotel in northwest Turkey, killing 78 people.
The court in Istanbul convicted the hotel’s owner, Hakan Oglak, of the charge of causing multiple deaths through negligence and sentenced him to 13 years and four months in prison, state broadcaster TRT reported. The owners of DSS Pest Control, Zeki Kisi and his son, Serkan Kisi, were sentenced to 18 years each while company employee Dogan Cagferoglu received a 12-year sentence.
All four were expected to appeal their convictions.
An inspection found traces of the insecticide phosphine gas on towels, masks and swab samples taken from the hotel. Phosphine is a highly toxic substance that can cause severe respiratory problems and organ damage.
Quoting investigators, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper said a substance was sprayed in a room on the ground floor of the hotel to combat a bed bug infestation, which may have reached the family’s room on the first floor through a bathroom vent. Police collected samples from sheets, pillows, water bottles and blankets before sealing the building, the newspaper reported.
The main entrance door of the Harbour Suites Old City hotel is sealed, in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 24, 2025. AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
The now-closed Harbour Suites is one of many low-cost hotels lying within walking distance of tourist attractions such as the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia.
“I offer my condolences to the family members who have passed away, and express my sympathies to their relatives,” Istanbul’s regional health chief Abdullah Emre Guner wrote in a post on X during the investigation.
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