Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at a closed ski resort hotel in northwest Turkey killed an Olympic skier and ...

and his father died when a hotel fire broke out at a Turkey ski resort on Thursday, March 27. Berkin was just 25. His father, Yahya Usta, was 57. The father and son had reportedly been staying on ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at a closed ski resort hotel in northwest Turkey killed an Olympic skier and his father Thursday, two months after a blaze at another Turkish winter resort left 79 dead.

Olympic skier Berkin Usta, who represented Turkey at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, died on Thursday after he and his father, Yahya Usta, perished in a hotel fire. The circumstances surrounding ...

Television images showed flames quickly engulfing the six-story hotel, located on the slopes of one of Turkey’s most popular ski destinations, less than a three-hour drive from Istanbul.

“I learned with deep sorrow that our national athlete Berkin Usta and his father, Yahya Usta, lost their lives in the fire that broke out in the hotel,” Osman Askin Bak, Turkey’s sports ...