New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- Turkiye's Defence Minister Yasar Guler announced on Wednesday that all 20 soldiers on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia were killed.

"Our heroic comrades-in-arms were martyred on 11 November 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," Defence Minister Yasar Guler said in a message posted on social media platform X.

The C-130 aircraft, which departed from Ganja, Azerbaijan, was returning to Turkiye when it tragically came down on Tuesday in Georgia's Sighnaghi municipality, situated close to the Azerbaijani border.

The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.

The wreckage was spre...