{"id":16061,"date":"2012-01-24T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=16061"},"modified":"2012-01-24T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:22:42","slug":"funeral-services-held-for-pakistan-air-forces-shaheed-pilot-16061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/funeral-services-held-for-pakistan-air-forces-shaheed-pilot-16061\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral services held for Pakistan Air Forces Shaheed Pilot inTurkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16063\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16063\" title=\"izmir-paki-pilot-funeral-nationalturk-0372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/izmir-paki-pilot-funeral-nationalturk-0372.jpg\" alt=\"Funeral services held for Pakistan Air Forces Shaheed Pilot inTurkey\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/izmir-paki-pilot-funeral-nationalturk-0372.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/izmir-paki-pilot-funeral-nationalturk-0372-280x166.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funeral services held for Pakistan Air Forces Shaheed Pilot inTurkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Funeral services for Pakistan Air Force pilot Squadron Leader Massoud Hussein Chhachhar were held at Izmir Airbase<\/h1>\n<p>\u0130zmir \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Funeral services for Pakistan Air Force pilot Squadron Leader Masood Hussain were held at Izmir Airbase on Monday at 4.00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As a mark of close relations between Pakistan and Turkey and high esteem and respect for the Shaheed officer, Turkish Air Chief Gen. Mehmet Ertem specially flew to Izmir to participate in the funeral services. Land Forces Commander of the Aegean Region, Izmir Air Base Commander and all officers of the Base paid homage to the Shaheed officer. The funeral was attended by Gen. Recep Y\u00fcksel of Turkey&#8217;s Air Training Command, Turkish Ambassador to Islamabad Bab\u00fcr H\u0131zlan, Punjab Provincial Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and ranking officers from the Pakistani Air Force. Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan sent laurels to the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to Turkey H.E. Mr. Muhammad Haroon Shaukat, Defence and Air Attach\u00e9 and officers of Pakistan Embassy also attended the funeral services. Chhachhar has been training Turkish pilots for the past two years as part of a military cooperation agreement between Turkey and Pakistan. The Pakistani Major had the most flight hours among servicemen in his rank and Turkish officials had requested to extend his tour of duty for another additional year due to &#8220;outstanding service,&#8221; the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapped in Pakistani and Turkish flags, dead body was flown to Pakistan on special plane. Shaheed officer was on exchange posting to Turkish Air Force. His plane has crashed while on a routine training mission, with a Turkish under training pilot. Chhachhar was training Turkish pilot Lt. Serkan Sa\u011f\u0131r on a D-137 plane when it crashed into the Aegean Sea near the western province of \u0130zmir, killing both pilots.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral services for Pakistan Air Force pilot Squadron Leader Massoud Hussein Chhachhar were held at Izmir Airbase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,174,194,173,14],"tags":[20579,20580,20584,20583,20581,20578,20582,12253],"class_list":["post-16061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-funeral-services-for-pakistan-air-force-pilot","tag-izmir-airbase","tag-massoud-hussein","tag-massoud-hussein-chhachhar","tag-pakistan-turkey","tag-pakistani-air-force","tag-shaheed-pakistani-officer","tag-turkey-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}