{"id":372231,"date":"2025-11-11T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372231\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:43:08","slug":"turkish-military-cargo-plane-crashes-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372231\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish military cargo plane crashes in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANKARA. Turkey (AP) \u2014 A Turkish military cargo plane with 20 people on board crashed in Georgia near the border with Azerbaijan<\/a> on Tuesday, authorities said, but they gave no immediate confirmation of feared casualties. <\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and top officials from Georgia and Azerbaijan signaled that at least some of those aboard were believed to have been killed, without providing details. <\/p>\n

Video footage aired on Turkish news outlets appeared to show the aircraft spiraling down and leaving a trail of white smoke.<\/p>\n

The C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey<\/a> when it crashed, Turkey\u2019s Ministry of National Defense said on X. <\/p>\n

The ministry said there were 20 military personnel on board, including crew members. Georgian authorities reached the crash site at around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT), Turkey\u2019s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding that a search and rescue operation was continuing. <\/p>\n

The Georgian Interior Ministry said the aircraft crashed in Georgia\u2019s Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani border, adding that an investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s state-run Anadolu Agency quoted the Georgian aviation authority as saying that contact with the plane was lost a few minutes after it had entered Georgia\u2019s airspace. The plane had not issued a distress call, it said.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s military deployed an unmanned aerial vehicle to support the rescue operation while an accident investigation team was making preparations to leave for Georgia, private news broadcaster NTV reported. <\/p>\n

Erdogan said he was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the crash and expressed his condolences for the \u201cmartyrs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod willing we will overcome this accident with the least amount of setbacks possible,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n

Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili also extended their condolences to their Turkish counterparts over the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply shocked by the news of the loss of life of our soldiers in the accident that occurred on Georgian soil,\u201d Aliyev said in a message according to the Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n

C-130 military cargo planes are widely used by Turkey\u2019s armed forces for transporting personnel and handling logistical operations.<\/p>\n

Turkey and Azerbaijan maintain close military cooperation.<\/p>\n

Erdogan and other Turkish officials had attended Azerbaijan\u2019s Victory Day celebrations in Baku on Nov. 8, marking Azerbaijan\u2019s military success in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA. Turkey (AP) \u2014 A Turkish military cargo plane with 20 people on board crashed in Georgia near…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61152,43410,3498,57,92769,50,518,32307,32308,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-372231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ali-yerlikaya","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-azerbaijan-government","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-ilham-aliyev","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-plane-crashes","15":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","16":"tag-turkey-government","17":"tag-world","18":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}