Olympic skier Berkin Usta, who competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, and his father died when a hotel fire broke out at a Turkey ski resort on March 27, 2025.

“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 killed an Olympic skier and his father Thursday, two months after a blaze at another Turkish winter resort left 79 dead.