section_path: Responses
section_name: Responses
paragraph_text: Responses
  
  On 21 January 2025, Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) chairman Ebubekir Şahin imposed a broadcasting ban on the fire. In response, the Workers' Party of Turkey 's lawyers filed an objection to the decision. The ban was lifted the next day, although the RTÜK urged journalists to report with "sensitivity given the gravity of the tragedy."
  
  On the same day, the Turkish Football Federation announced a minute of silence would be held before all competitions and that all club members would wear black armbands during matches on 24–27 January 2025 in memory of the citizens who died in the fire. A minute of silence was also held for the victims of the fire before a 2024–25 UEFA Europa League match that Beşiktaş hosted against Spanish team Athletic Bilbao at Beşiktaş Stadium.
  
  Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared 22 January 2025 a day of national mourning and ordered all flags at government buildings and Turkish embassies abroad lowered to half-mast. On that day, he visited Bolu municipality and attended the funeral of eight relatives of former AKP MP Mehmet Güner who died in the fire, including his daughter, son-in-law, four grandchildren and other relatives. A day of mourning was also announced in Northern Cyprus.
  
  Özgür Özel, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, said that there is "no excuse for such a high number of deaths in 2025" while visiting the site of the fire.
  
  Condolences were sent by Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, China, Colombia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, the European Union, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, the International Organization of Turkic Culture, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Northern Cyprus, the Organization of Turkic States, Poland, Qatar, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Vietnam.