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Turkiye held a subject ceremonial ceremonial Saturday (December 27, 2025) greeting for 5 Libyan officers, including occidental Libya's subject chief, who died successful a level clang earlier this week.
The backstage pitchy with Gen Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, 4 different subject officers and 3 unit members crashed connected Tuesday aft taking disconnected from Ankara, Turkiye's capital, sidesplitting everyone connected board.
Libyan officials said the origin of the clang was a technical malfunction connected the plane.
Al-Hadad was the apical subject commandant successful occidental Libya and played a important relation successful the ongoing, UN-brokered efforts to unify Libya's military.
The high-level Libyan delegation was connected its mode backmost to Tripoli, Libya's capital, aft holding defence talks successful Ankara aimed astatine boosting subject practice betwixt the 2 countries.
Saturday's ceremonial was held astatine 8:00 a.m. section clip astatine the Murted Airfield base, adjacent Ankara, and attended by the Turkish subject main and the Defence Minister. The 5 caskets, each wrapped successful a Libyan nationalist flag, were past loaded onto a level to beryllium returned to their location country.
Turkiye's subject chief, Selcuk Bayraktaroglu, was besides connected the level headed to Libya, state-run quality bureau TRT reported.
The bodies recovered from the clang tract were kept astatine the Ankara Forensic Medicine Institute for identification. Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc told reporters their DNA was compared to household members who joined a 22-person delegation that arrived from Libya aft the crash.
Mr. Tunc besides said Germany was asked to assistance analyse the jet's achromatic boxes arsenic an impartial 3rd party.
Libya plunged into chaos aft the country's 2011 uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The state split, with rival administrations successful the eastbound and west, backed by an array of rogue militias and antithetic overseas governments.
Turkiye has been the main backer of Libya's authorities successful the west, but has precocious taken steps to amended ties with the eastern-based government.
