“GREAT PAIN”
“Our ache is nice,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned, declaring a nationwide day of mourning on Wednesday, and vowing that these accountable can be “held to account”.
Tourism Minister Nuri Ersoy mentioned the resort had two hearth escapes and had handed a hearth inspection “in 2024” however some survivors mentioned there seemed to be no security mechanisms in place.
“There was no alarm, no smoke detector and no hearth escape, regardless that there was smoke all the best way as much as the tenth ground,” mentioned a tearful man who had been on the resort since Sunday and was interviewed by a number of TV channels.
And Yelkovan, who escaped from the third ground, instructed IHA: “No hearth alarm went off … and there was no hearth escape,” including that it had taken “between an hour and an hour-and-a-half” for the firefighters to reach.
After the flames have been lastly doused, footage from inside confirmed the blackened foyer crammed with charred picket furnishings and shattered glass.
As Türkiye counted the useless, condolences poured in from leaders reminiscent of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
