From Turkey says 20 dead in military plane crash in Georgia
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Debris is seen at a crash site of a Turkish military cargo plane in Georgia's Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani border on Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
All 20 personnel on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia were killed, Turkey’s defense minister announces.
The C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey when it crashed yesterday in Georgia’s Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani border.
“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 says on a message posted on X, together with photographs of the military personnel that were killed.
The cause of the crash is being investigated.
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