Bodies of 20 soldiers killed in Georgia military plane crash brought to Türkiye
ANKARA
The bodies of 20 Turkish soldiers killed in a military cargo plane crash near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border were brought to Türkiye on Monday evening, officials has said.
The remains were transported aboard an A400M military transport aircraft following forensic procedures in Tbilisi, according to Turkish defense sources.
The C130 aircraft had crashed on November 11 in Georgia’s Kakheti region, in a mountainous area near the Signagi municipality, about five kilometers from the Azerbaijani border.
After recovery operations at the crash site, the soldiers’ bodies were flown from Tbilisi International Airport at around 7:30 p.m. local time and arrived in Ankara at 8:30 p.m., the sources added.
