The bodies of 11 soldiers who were martyred in the helicopter crashed in Tatvan district of Bitlis were brought to Elazığ, where they served. After the ceremony to be held here, the corpses of the martyrs will be sent off to their hometown. With the Cougar type helicopter belonging to the Land Forces Command, which took off from Bingöl to Tatvan district of Bitlis at 13.55 yesterday, the contact was lost at 14.25. Thereupon, a search was carried out with the UAV, CN-235 aircraft and a helicopter. It was detected that a helicopter crashed near Çekmece village, which is 10 kilometers from Tatvan. 8th Corps Commander Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş and 10 soldiers were martyred in the accident.
Our martyrs who burn our hearts
Turkey the law strangling accident, the helicopter Lt. Gen. Osman Lance Corporal (Yozgat-Yerköy), NCO sergeants Nazmi Yilmaz (Kahramanmaras-Afshar's), Colonel Senturk Aydıny is (Kars), Captain Saleh Sarıoğlu (Samsun-Bafra), staff sergeant Mehmet Demir (Kahramanmaraş-Onikişubat), Petty Officer Senior Sergeant Ömer Umulu (Kırıkkale), Pilot Captain Tayfun Kureş (Trabzon-Of), Pilot Captain Gökhan Uysal (Afyonkarahisar-Dinar), Petty Officer Senior Sergeant Şükrü Karadirek (Afyonkarahisar), Specialist Sergeant Tolga Demirci (Kayseri -Pınarbaşı) and Expert Sergeant Hakan Gül (Amasya) were martyred.
