TURKISH MILITARY PLANE CRASH KILLS 20 SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA

Turkey’s defence force has confirmed that all 20 soldiers on board a military transport plane that crashed in neighbouring Georgia on Tuesday have died.
The C-130 plane had taken off from Ganja, Azerbaijan, heading back to Turkey before it crashed into a farmland near the border with Azerbaijan
Turkish accident investigation team scan the grounds to determine the cause of the crash. It was revealed that contact with the plane was lost a few minutes after it entered Georgia’s airspace with no distress signal issued
NATO has expressed its condolences to Ankara, it is the alliance member’s deadliest military incident since February 2020.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili have also expressed their sorrow to their Turkish counterparts.

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