The crash occurred after hitting a high-voltage power line three minutes after take off, the province governor\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
All 13 military personnel aboard perished in the crash, said the Turkish General Staff.<\/p>\n
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was informed about the accident and conveyed his condolence to Turkish Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar, who went to scene, according to presidential sources.<\/p>\n
According to Anadolu Agency, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and his wife visited the family of Maj. Gen. Aydogan Aydin who was martyred in the crash. “May Allah rest their souls of our heroes who were martyred in this painful event that grieved us deeply,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu also arrived in Sirnak to examine the scene.<\/p>\n
The leaders expressed their sympathies via their social media accounts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sorrow of our hero martyred in the helicopter crashed have torn my heart out. May God rest their souls,\u201d Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu wrote on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also took to the social media platform to offer his condolences to families of the martyrs. \u201cMay God rest their soul in peace,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu conveyed his condolences \u201cto all Turkey,\u201d by way of his Twitter account.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thirteen people were martyred Wednesday in a crash of a Cougar-type military helicopter in the southern province of Sirnak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,174],"tags":[43806,10035],"class_list":["post-58931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","tag-helicopter","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}