{"id":19495,"date":"2025-01-21T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/tehran-extends-condolences-to-turkey-after-deadly-hotel-blaze\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:16:59","slug":"tehran-extends-condolences-to-turkey-after-deadly-hotel-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/tehran-extends-condolences-to-turkey-after-deadly-hotel-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran extends condolences to Turkey after deadly hotel blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5342299.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 In the wake of a catastrophic fire at a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey, Iran has extended its heartfelt condolences to the victims&#8217; families and expressed deep sympathy to the Turkish people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident, which occurred at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya resort, Bolu province, has so far claimed at least 66 lives and left 51 others injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei conveyed the sympathies of the Iranian people and government on Tuesday, highlighting the strong friendship ties between the two neighboring countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his statement, Baqaei remarked, &#8220;We extend our deepest condolences and sympathy to the families of the deceased, the government, and the people of our friendly neighbor, Turkey.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also expressed his prayers for the deceased, saying, &#8220;May God grant mercy and forgiveness to those who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident and provide recovery and health to the injured.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire began around 3:30 a.m. local time, causing extensive damage to the fully occupied hotel during a busy school semester break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eyewitnesses reported scenes of panic as guests, in a desperate bid to escape, resorted to jumping from windows or using bed sheets as makeshift ropes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/508927\/Tehran-extends-condolences-to-Turkey-after-deadly-hotel-blaze\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 In the wake of a catastrophic fire at a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey, Iran has extended its heartfelt condolences to the victims&#8217; families and expressed deep sympathy to the Turkish people. The incident, which occurred at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya resort, Bolu province, has so far claimed at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,572],"class_list":["post-19495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-politics","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}