The Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Ibrahim Yumakli, stated in an interview with the ‘Express’ website that “the incident occurred when two Turkish firefighting planes were trying to return home but lost contact with air traffic control. One of them managed to land at a Croatian airport, while the other crashed.”
The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that 20 soldiers died in the crash of a Turkish military cargo plane in Georgia yesterday.
Additionally, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier announced the death of Turkish military personnel due to the crash of a ‘C-130’ military cargo plane on the borders of Azerbaijan and Georgia, noting that search operations are ongoing to reach the wreckage of the ill-fated plane.
He indicated that “search efforts are continuing to reach the wreckage of the military plane that crashed on the Azerbaijan-Georgia border.”
