Turkey on Wednesday said all 20 people onboard a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia on its return from Azerbaijan had died.

The plane had taken off from Ganja airport in western Azerbaijan on Tuesday afternoon but crashed shortly after crossing the border into eastern Georgia, the defence ministry said after the incident.

It said there were 20 people on board, including the flight crew.

"Our heroic comrades-in-arms were martyred on 11 November 2025 due to the crash of our C-130 military cargo aircraft, which had taken off from Azerbaijan to return to Turkey," Defence Minister Yasar Guler said in a statement posted on his X account alongside 20 photographs of those who died.

Turkey has not said what caused the accident but dramatic footage taken by eyewitnesses and published b

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