Family and friends bid a tearful farewell to Ferda Apak and her daughter, Vedia Nil Apak, at an emotional funeral held Thursday in Istanbul. Both lost their lives in the tragic fire that swept through a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort in the northwest of the country on1.

Negligence played a role in the deaths of 78 people who perished when a huge fire gutted a luxury ski resort hotel in northern Turkey this week, an expert has told AFP.