Eleven people have been detained after four members of the same family died from suspected poisoning while on holiday in Turkey.

Cigdem Boceck, 27, and her husband Servet, 38, fell ill just two days after travelling from Hamburg, Germany to the Turkish capital 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 hote

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