A Turkish military cargo plane crashed in Georgia during a return flight from Azerbaijan, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan confirmed that there were casualties, but did not give an exact number. He spoke about “our martyrs” and expressed his condolences to the relatives. According to the ministry, a large-scale search and rescue operation was immediately launched in the mountainous area where the aircraft disappeared from the radar. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, but Turkish and Georgian authorities are jointly investigating the incident to gain more clarity about what exactly happened.
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