First Infantry Training Brigade Command

A total of 87 soldiers at a military barracks in the southwestern resort district of Marmaris were hospitalized in the Aegean province of Muğla over a period of three days after suffering from nausea and vomiting, Doğan News Agency reported on June 29. 

A brigade commander was dismissed from his post on June 23 after a food poisoning incident in a military barrack in the western province of Manisa.

Brigade Commander Colonel Şefik Güvenç was dismissed from his post upon the orders of Defense Minister Fikri Işık, sources from the ministry told state-run Anadolu Agency.

A Turkish court on June 22 arrested six employees of a catering firm, including the firm's CEO and its local manager, over a suspected food poisoning incident in which 731 soldiers at a military barracks in the Aegean province of Manisa were hospitalized.

Nine suspects, including the chair of the catering firm, were referred to court with an arrest demand as part of the case into the food poisoning at a military barracks in the Aegean province of Manisa on June 21, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The catering firm, whose contract with a military barrack was recently cancelled after a mass food poisoning incident in the western Turkish province of Manisa, was also accused of another poisoning incident from 2016 which took place at the Finance Ministry.

The number of detainees involved in a food poisoning case at a military barracks in the western province of Manisa has increased from 21 to 24, the local governor told private broadcaster CNN Türk on June 19.

A total of 731 soldiers were hospitalized late on June 17 after being affected by food poisoning at a military barracks in the western province of Manisa, officials said June 18. 

None of the soldiers are displaying life-threatening conditions, Manisa Chief Prosecutor Akif Celahattain Şimşek said in a written statement.

A total of 731 soldiers were hospitalized late on June 17 after being affected by food poisoning at a military barracks in the western province of Manisa, officials said June 18. 

None of the soldiers are displaying life-threatening conditions, Manisa Chief Prosecutor Akif Celahattain Şimşek said in a written statement.

The authorities are concealing the results of a test conducted to diagnose the cause of an infection in a Turkish barracks that killed a soldier and hospitalized more than 1,000, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Manisa deputy Tur Yıldız Biçer has claimed.

An infection that led to 1,046(!) soldiers going to emergency service with complaints of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea on May 23 in the western province of Manisa resulted from being offered uncooked turkey meat, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Manisa lawmaker Tur Yıldız Biçer said on May 28.