ISTANBUL
\nTwo Dutch teenagers were found dead in their Istanbul hotel room and their father hospitalized, Turkish media reported on Saturday, with initial suspicion falling on a restaurant meal they had eaten.
\nThe 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\u2019s Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar, according to the NTV television channel.
\n\u201cWhen they arrived, ambulance paramedics noted the two children were deceased. The father was taken to hospital by ambulance\u201d in a state of shock, the channel reported.
\nThe three had been vacationing in Turkiye and were believed to have gone to the touristy Taksim district for dinner, media said.
\nThe 57-year-old father told police he had gone with his sons to Taksim \u201cbut did not eat,\u201d the Haber Turk news outlet reported.
\nLater 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.
\n\u201cWhen I knocked at the door and entered, the two sons were dead, one of them in bed, the other on the floor… When paramedics arrived, the two young men were deceased. The father was in a state of shock,\u201d Kirdag said.
\nIstanbul police have launched an investigation, NTV reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISTANBUL Two Dutch teenagers were found dead in their Istanbul hotel room and their father hospitalized, 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-498673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n