After a Turkish military plane crashed, the country’s defense minister posted a message saying: “Our heroic comrades-in-arms were martyred.”
The personnel were on board the C-130 Hercules plane that took off from Azerbaijan en route to Turkey, officials said.
“Our heroic comrades-in-arms were martyred on November 11, 2025, when our C-130 military cargo plane, which had taken off from Azerbaijan en route to our country, crashed near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border,” Defense Minister Yasar Guler said in a message posted on X, together with photographs of those killed in the crash.
— T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) November 12, 2025
In a post on X, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev sent his sympathies to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
What caused the crash?
Georgia’s air traffic control service said the aircraft had disappeared from radar shortly after entering its airspace.
The cause of the crash is still unknown, and an investigation is underway.
An investigation team from Turkey reached the crash site early on Wednesday and was inspecting the plane’s wreckage in coordination with the Georgian authorities, the National Defense Ministry said.
Debris from the plane was spread across multiple locations, according to a report by Turkey’s private broadcaster NTV.
Source : https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-military-plane-crash-all-20-onboard-dead/a-74703512
