Dozens of people died in the fire which broke out at the Grand Kartal hotel in the Koroglu mountains in Bolu, north Turkey, while four have been arrested - dramatic footage shows the sheer size of the

A fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey's Bolu mountains killed 76 people and injured 51 others on Tuesday, forcing panicked guests to jump out of windows in the middle of the night.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday the death toll from a predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort has risen to 76.

The fire in Turkey’s Kartalkaya area started on the restaurant floor of the Grand Kartal Hotel, authorities said.

At least 76 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular Turkish ski resort hotel, leaving some to jump out of windows. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there.

Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 76 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,

A large fire broke out in an industrial building in Istanbul on Friday, state media reported. The fire burned the top floor of a 1,000 square meter textile workshop in Sultanbeyli, a district of Istanbul,

Among the detainees are Bolu municipality's deputy mayor responsible for the fire department, the fire chief, and the owner and the manager of the hotel.

President Tayyip Erdogan declared Wednesday a day of national mourning following the tragedy at Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalya

A day of mourning is under way in Turkey for the 76 victims of a fire that engulfed a popular ski resort hotel in the country's north-west. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there. It took 12 hours to put out.

The fire broke out at about 3.30am in the restaurant of the 12-storey hotel in northwest Turkey, where more than 230 guests were staying, causing some to jump out of windows to escape the flames.

The tourism minister has blamed the Bolu Municipality for the fire that claimed 78 lives at the Kartalkaya ski resort, while the mayor argues that the ministry is responsible because the resort was designated a tourism center.