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. The victims were ...

“I learned with deep sorrow the news that our national athlete Berkin Usta, who represented Turkey at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and his father, former national athlete Yahya Usta, passed away ...

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a hotel at a ski resort of Kartalkaya in Bolu province, in northwest Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. | Associated Press 33,714 people played the daily ...

A fire at a closed ski resort hotel in northwest Turkey on Thursday, March 27, 2025 killed an Olympic skier and his father, only months after a similar incident killed more than 70 people at another ...

who competed in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, 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 ...

May their resting place be heaven.” Turkey’s Olympic team later added in its own statement on X, “We wish God's mercy to our national skier Berkin Usta and his father Yahya Usta, and offer ...

Berkin represented his native Turkey in the 2022 Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom events. “We have learned with deep sorrow that our national skier Berkin Usta, who represented our ...