Turkey announced on Thursday that the body of the 20th soldier who died in a military cargo plane crash earlier this week has been recovered, accounting for all victims of the accident.
The National Defense Ministry said in a statement: “As a result of the search efforts in the wreckage of our military cargo plane that crashed, the sacred body of our 20th martyr has been reached.”
The C-130 military cargo aircraft, which was en route from Azerbaijan, crashed in Georgia on Tuesday. The ministry confirmed that all 20 people on board, including the flight crew, perished in the crash.
