{"id":17347,"date":"2025-08-23T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:04:04","slug":"two-dutch-teens-found-dead-in-istanbul-hotel-father-hospitalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17347","title":{"rendered":"Two Dutch teens found dead in Istanbul hotel, father hospitalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two Dutch teenagers were found dead in their Istanbul hotel room and their father hospitalised, Turkish media reported on Saturday, with initial suspicion falling on a restaurant meal they had eaten.<\/p>\n<p>The boys, aged 15 and 17, were deceased when police and paramedics arrived at the hotel where they were staying, in the Fatih district, near Istanbul&#8217;s Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar, according to the NTV television channel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they arrived, ambulance paramedics noted the two children were deceased. The father was taken to hospital by ambulance&#8221; in a state of shock, the channel reported.<\/p>\n<p>The three had been vacationing in Turkey and were believed to have gone to the touristy Taksim district for dinner, media said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: How floods turned wedding celebrations into 24 funerals<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old father told police he had gone with his sons to Taksim &#8220;but did not eat&#8221;, the Haber Turk news outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, after returning to the hotel, the father called out to the boys, who did not respond. A hotel employee, Mehmet Kirdag, heard the father crying for help, NTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I knocked at the door and entered, the two sons were dead, one of them in bed, the other on the floor&#8230; When paramedics arrived, the two young men were deceased. The father was in a state of shock,&#8221; Kirdag said.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul police have launched an investigation, NTV reported.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Two Dutch teenagers were found dead in their Istanbul hotel room and their father hospitalised, Turkish media reported on Saturday, with initial suspicion falling on a restaurant meal they had eaten. The boys, aged 15 and 17, were deceased when police and paramedics arrived at the hotel where they were staying, in the Fatih [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}