16.10.2026 22:00
In the Kurtalan district of Siirt, 19 students who ate at a school canteen were taken to hospital after becoming ill. After three people, one of whom was a child, who ate at another establishment in the district were also taken to hospital with similar complaints, an investigation was launched on suspicion of food poisoning. In the incident, in which a total of 22 people were taken to hospital, samples to be taken from the canteen and the establishment will be sent to Diyarbakır.
In Siirt, 22 people, 19 of them students, were hospitalized with suspected poisoning. An investigation into food safety was launched after people who ate at two different locations in the Kurtalan district fell ill.
19 STUDENTS WHO ATE AT THE SCHOOL CANTEEN WERE HOSPITALIZED
Students who ate at the canteen of a school in the Kurtalan district of Siirt fell ill. 19 students were taken to Kurtalan State Hospital with suspected food poisoning. After the students fell ill, an investigation process was initiated to determine the cause of the incident. Whether the food consumed in the canteen caused the students to fall ill will become clear after the analyses to be carried out.
3 PEOPLE ALSO FELL ILL AT ANOTHER BUSINESS
A similar incident occurred not only at the school canteen but also at a different business in the district. Three people, one of them a child, who ate at a business were taken to the hospital with suspected food poisoning. Thus, the number of people hospitalized in Kurtalan rose to 22. No information has yet been provided on whether the incidents at the two separate locations are connected. The contents of the food consumed by the people who fell ill and the exact cause of the suspected poisoning have also not been disclosed.
THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS
Following the incidents in Kurtalan, a judicial investigation process was initiated. Upon the instruction of the public prosecutor, teams from the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry will work to take samples from the school canteen and the other business. The samples to be taken by the teams from both locations will be examined for food safety. It was stated that the samples to be taken from the canteen and the business will be sent to Diyarbakır in order to uncover the cause of the suspected food poisoning.