section_path: Casualties
section_name: Casualties
paragraph_text: Casualties
  
  At least 78 people died in the fire, including at least two who jumped out of the building "in a panic", while 51 others were injured, with one in serious condition. A majority of the deaths were likely caused by suffocation. At least 36 of the fatalities were children, according to local media reports, and in some cases members of the same family died, with one family losing more than ten members.
  
  Among the deaths were Sözcü writer and former Orduspor president Nedim Türkmen with his wife and two children; 10-year-old Fenerbahçe S.K. swimmer Vedia Nil Apak and her mother; and the Özyeğin University dean of the faculty of business Atakan Yalçın. At least two hotel employees, including a chef, were confirmed dead. Seventy-seven victims were Turkish citizens and one was a Georgian national who worked as a babysitter, dying along with her two wards and their mother who were guests at the hotel. Due to a lack of morgue capacity in local hospitals, the bodies of the dead were temporarily placed in a refrigerator truck.