Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking at a summit dedicated to urbanization issues, reported that the authorities continue to coordinate the actions of rescue services to ensure access to the site of the incident.
Erdoğan expressed his condolences: "With deep sorrow, we report that our military aircraft, which was coming from Azerbaijan, crashed on the border with Georgia. We are making every effort to ensure that rescue teams can reach the crash site. We hope that we can emerge from this tragedy with minimal losses," he noted.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the plane crashed in the Signagi area, approximately five kilometers from the border with Azerbaijan. It was indicated that contact with the aircraft was lost shortly after it entered Georgian airspace, and the aircraft did not send distress signals.
