The ministry reminded that in July 2019, 16-year-old Russian woman, a resident of Krasnoyarsk, Sofia Lanshakova, died in Alanya. In August 2019, a 12-year-old Russian woman, Alisa Adamova, suffered in a hotel pool in Bodrum. The child was under water for a long time. The victim was hospitalized in the hospital, where she died.

Also, in August 2019, when visiting a water park in Alanya, 19-year-old Olga Desyatova from Moscow fell into a coma for unknown reasons. To provide medical care, the Russian woman was taken to the hospital, and a week later transported to the Russian Federation, where she died without regaining consciousness.

In early September 2019, a 5-year-old resident of the Arkhangelsk region, Lyubov Torochkova, in a hotel in Alanya, under unknown circumstances, was in the pool, where she began to sink. After emergency transportation to the clinic, the girl died during resuscitation procedures.

“In order to obtain evidence on the territory of the Republic of Turkey on the basis of existing international treaties, requests for legal assistance were sent, however, the data and materials requested by the investigation that were relevant to the adoption of legal and reasonable decisions in criminal cases were not submitted by the Turkish side,” they said in the UK.

In the fall of 2019, the Secretary General of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum Sergey Markov spoke about the most common causes of death of tourists in Turkey and safety measures that should be followed.