Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2012 Oct, 228(2)

Letter to the Editor

Deaths Due to Fires in the Tent City Set Up After the 2011 Earthquake in Van, Turkey

YAVUZ HEKIMOGLU,¹ MUSTAFA GOKHAN DIZDAR,¹ NERGIS CANTURK,² IPEK ESEN MELEZ,³ GUROL CANTURK,⁴ ZERRIN ERKOL,⁵ OSMAN NURI GULER⁶ and RECEP DURSUN⁷

¹Van Branch Office, The Council of Forensic Medicine, The Ministry of Justice, Van, Turkey
²Department of Criminalistics, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
³The Council of Forensic Medicine, The Ministry of Justice, Istanbul, Turkey
⁴Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
⁵Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
⁶Van Attorney Generalship, The Ministry of Justice, Van, Turkey
⁷Department of Emergency Medicine, Van Training Research Hospital, Van, Turkey

keywords —— autopsy; death; earthquake; fire; forensic medicine

© 2012 Tohoku University Medical Press

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Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2012, 228, 169-171

Correspondence: Nergis Canturk, Department of Criminalistics, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.

e-mail: nergiscanturk@yahoo.com