All 20 personnel on a Turkish military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia died

ANKARA, Turkey -- All 20 unit connected committee a subject cargo level that crashed successful Georgia were killed, Turkey's defence curate announced connected Wednesday.

The C-130 level had taken disconnected from Ganja, Azerbaijan and was connected its mode backmost to Turkey erstwhile it crashed connected Tuesday successful Georgia’s Sighnaghi municipality, adjacent to the Azerbaijani border. The origin of the clang is being investigated.

A Turkish mishap probe squad reached the clang tract aboriginal connected Wednesday and was inspecting the wreckage of the plane, successful coordination with the Georgian authorities, the National Defense Ministry said.

The wreckage was dispersed crossed a plain that includes farmland and is surrounded by hills, Turkish backstage broadcaster NTV reported from the site. Debris from the craft was scattered crossed aggregate locations, the study said.

“Our heroic comrades-in-arms were martyred connected November 11, 2025, erstwhile our C-130 subject cargo plane, which had taken disconnected from Azerbaijan en way to our country, crashed adjacent the Georgia-Azerbaijan border,” Defense Minister Yasar Guler said successful a connection posted connected X, unneurotic with photographs of the subject unit that were killed.

On Tuesday, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency quoted the Georgian aviation authorization arsenic saying that interaction with the level was mislaid a fewer minutes aft it had entered Georgia’s airspace. The level had not issued a distress signal, it said.

C-130 subject cargo planes are wide utilized by Turkey’s equipped forces for transporting unit and handling logistical operations.

Turkey and Azerbaijan support adjacent subject cooperation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and different Turkish officials had attended Azerbaijan’s Victory Day celebrations successful Baku connected Nov. 8, marking Azerbaijan’s subject occurrence implicit Armenia successful the 2020 power of Karabakh region, known internationally arsenic Nagorno-Karabakh, a struggle that had lasted nearly 4 decades.

It was not instantly wide if the subject unit connected the cargo had attended the ceremonies.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili extended their condolences to their Turkish counterparts implicit Tuesday's crash.

“We are profoundly shocked by the quality of the nonaccomplishment of beingness of our soldiers successful the mishap that occurred connected Georgian soil,” Aliyev said successful a message, according to the Anadolu Agency.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack offered his condolences and affirmed Washington's solidarity with Ankara. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte besides extended his sympathies, honored the subject unit who were killed, and thanked each NATO unit for their service.

There was nary accusation connected ceremonial arrangements oregon erstwhile the remains would beryllium returned to Turkey.