Just beware!
Posted on 11/27/2025 3:41:18 AM PST by daniel1212
Cigdem Boceck, 27, and her husband Servet, 38, fell ill just two days after travelling from Hamburg, Germany to the Turkish city of Istanbul with their two children Masal, three, and Kadir, six, on November 9.
Two days later, they left their hotel shortly after midday and took a taxi to Ortakoy, where they ate midye, a popular street snack of stuffed mussels served cold with lemon, from a street vendor.
After the midye they each ordered different dishes at a restaurant, including kokorec, a dish made from calf intestines and tavuk tantuni, a type of Turkish chicken wrap.
They later bought Turkish delights from a shop in Fatih before returning to their hotel. Once back at the hotel, Masal and Kadir began suffering from nausea and vomiting.
Both children were taken to hospital, with the parents also developing similar symptoms shortly afterwards.
A major probe has been launched by Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office, which, so far, has led to 11 people being detained, including the street vendors the family bought food from.
Initially, detectives were focusing on suspected food poisoning, but evidence has since emerged that the family may have been exposed to pesticides in the hotel where they were staying, Turkish media reported.
Police and prosecutors have a theory that a substance used in a bedbug treatment in a room on the hotel’s ground floor may have reached the family’s room through the bathroom ventilation shaft and poisoned them.
The harmful substance is aluminium phosphide which is a powerful toxic chemical used as a pesticide in agriculture and homes that can cause death if inhaled in high amounts
Even parts of the First World can be redolent. I served two years at Yokota AB, Japan,, 1984 - 1986, when I was in the USAF. The farms around both ends of the runway were fertilized with fresh manure. For a week or two a year the base was indeed redolent.
Yokota had its good points. Many of the Japanese electronics factories were within twenty miles. Last years stocks of consumer electronics were seriously marked down. $2000 Nakamichi Dragon cassette tape player marked down to under $1000.
Likely, if AC was on, but what a menu.
Interesting comment about disposing of used toilet paper in Argentina. Mexico does this. Here on the U.S./Mexican border you find used paper thrown in the waste baskets in Cafes and shops by Mexican visiting the U.S.. In Mexico their sewage systems are not set up to carry the paper in toilets, in businesses and in homes. When they come to the U.S. they don’t have sense to realize that we have sanitation rules here. Doubt if they will every adapt and update their sewage.
Interesting comment about disposing of used toilet paper in Argentina. Mexico does this. Here on the U.S./Mexican border you find used paper thrown in the waste baskets in Cafes and shops by Mexican visiting the U.S.. In Mexico their sewage systems are not set up to carry the paper in toilets, in businesses and in homes. When they come to the U.S. they don’t have sense to realize that we have sanitation rules here. Doubt if they will every adapt and update their sewage.
Interesting comment about disposing of used toilet paper in Argentina. Mexico does this. Here on the U.S./Mexican border you find used paper thrown in the waste baskets in Cafes and shops by Mexican visiting the U.S.. In Mexico their sewage systems are not set up to carry the paper in toilets, in businesses and in homes. When they come to the U.S. they don’t have sense to realize that we have sanitation rules here. Doubt if they will every adapt and update their sewage.
I don’t think the name turkey has anything to do with the bird over there
In Spanish it’s Pavo
In Portuguese it’s Peru
In Italian tacchina
French it’s dinde
Kinda wierd
Yes, that is not the only one from that source.
“In Spanish it’s Pavo”
In Mexican spanish, “guajolote” is another word that they use for turkey. It’s from one of the pre-Spaniard languages.
They say it like “woe hoe low tay”.
Good German names there.....
Aluminium phosphide reacts vigorously with water or acids to release phosphine gas.[5] The phosphine gas is the basis of the toxicity of AlP.
Must be very cautious about food in foreign countries. One of the first things they taught us when I was in Japan.
Don’t eat fuzzy kebabs or revolving meat on a stick. The brown acid?
Stay away from it too, and a woman belly dancer named Jasmine.
Ever been in a Turkish prison, Johnnie? It’s no picnic.
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