“I learned with deep sorrow the news that our national athlete Berkin Usta, who represented Türkiye at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and his father, former national athlete Yahya Usta, passed away in a fire that broke out in Bursa,” he said according to a translation.

A fire at a closed ski resort hotel in northwest Turkey has killed an Olympic skier and his father. Thursday's blaze took place two months after a blaze at another Turkish winter resort left 79 dead.

Olympic skier Berkin Usta and his father, Yahya Usta, died after a hotel fire on Friday. They were 24 and 57, respectively. “I learned with deep sorrow that our national athlete Berkin Usta and his father,