20 Turkish Military Cargo Aircraft Personnel Crashed In Georgia Killed

Illustration of a rotating plane losing control with a white trail of smoke that eventually fell to the mainland. (Richard R. Sch\unemann-Unsplash)

Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler announced as many as 20 Turkish military cargo aircraft personnel were killed in yesterday's crash.

All of the military personnel were on a C-130 plane that crashed in Sighnakhi City, Georgia, near the Azerbaijani border.

Our heroic comrades died on November 11, 2025, when our C-130 military cargo plane, which took off from Azerbaijan on its way to our country, crashed near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border," Guler said in a statement on his X account, Wednesday, November 12, quoted by AP.

Galur in his upload on his social media account also uploaded a photo of the personnel of the military cargo plane that died.

A Turkish military cargo plane crashed in Georgia on Tuesday 11 November.

In the video footage, the C-130 aircraft can be seen spinning out of control with white smoke tracks until it finally fell to the mainland.

The plane took off from the airport in Azerbaijan on a route to Turkey.