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turkey Military funerals were held on Sunday morning for five Libyan officers, including the western Libyan military chief who was killed in a plane crash earlier this week.
The private plane carrying Gen. Mohammed Ali Ahmed Haddad, four other officers and three crew members crashed after taking off on Tuesday. AnkaraAll people on board were killed in the Turkish capital. Libyan officials said the crash was caused by a technical failure on the plane.
Haddad is the top military commander in western Libya and plays a key role in ongoing UN-brokered efforts to unify Libyan forces.
High-level Libyan delegation is on its way back home diatomiteLibyan capital, after holding defense talks in Ankara aimed at promoting military cooperation between the two countries.
Sunday’s ceremony took place at 8:00 a.m. local time at the Mut Airport base near Ankara and was attended by Türkiye’s military chief and defense minister. The five coffins were each wrapped in a Libyan flag before being loaded onto a plane and returned to their home country.
Turkish military chief Selcuk Bayaktaroglu was also on the plane to Libya, state news agencies reported. TRT reported.
Bodies recovered from the crash site were kept at Ankara’s Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification. Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc told reporters that their DNA was compared with family members of members of a 22-person delegation that arrived from Libya after the crash.
Tonk also said Germany Requested to serve as an impartial third party to help examine the aircraft’s black boxes
Libya was plunged into chaos after a 2011 uprising that overthrew and killed longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Backed by a series of rogue militias and various foreign governments, the country was divided, with rival governments emerging in the east and west.
Türkiye has been a major supporter of Libya’s western government but has recently taken steps to improve relations with the eastern government.