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A military helicopter transporting 8th Corps Commander General Osman ERBAS crashed near Bitlis Tatvan Highway, Tatvan Open Prison. At the moment we don't have exact information about the casualties. The information that come is regarding many injured and martyred soldiers. Please refrain from disinformation and wait for confirmed source.

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The communication with Cougar type helicopter belonging to our Land Forces, which took off from Bingöl to Tatvan at 13.55, was cut off at 14.25, and it was determined that 9 of our heroic comrades in the helicopter were martyred and 4 were injured.

We wish mercy from Allah to our heroic comrades who were martyred in this painful incident that drowned us in deep pain and sorrow, our condolences and patience to our valuable families, relatives, the Turkish Armed Forces and our Noble Nation, and we wish our injured personnel fast recovery.
 

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Rest in peace to those that perished.

May the injured heal swiftly as possible.
 
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The communication with Cougar type helicopter belonging to our Land Forces, which took off from Bingöl to Tatvan at 13.55, was cut off at 14.25, and it was determined that 9 of our heroic comrades in the helicopter were martyred and 4 were injured.

We wish mercy from Allah to our heroic comrades who were martyred in this painful incident that drowned us in deep pain and sorrow, our condolences and patience to our valuable families, relatives, the Turkish Armed Forces and our Noble Nation, and we wish our injured personnel fast recovery.
Do we have names and ranks?
 

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Unfortunately one of the martyrs is Elazig 8th Corps Commander General Osman ERBAS. He is known with his firm stance against FETO terrorist organization. May he rest in peace!

EDIT: Interesting fact about him is that he is ex General Staff Intelligence Commander.

The names of all martyrs and their ranks will be published soon.
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The MoD Hulusi Akar and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu are moving to the crash site.
 

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Selcuk Bayraktar: I met our martyr General Osman ERBAS Pasha in 2010 when he was Brigade Commander in Dogubayazit. He welcomed us to train personnel for use of our mini UAVs. We were in all the outposts in that area together and he was a very loved commander.

Trough the years our friendship didn't end. He gave major support in the development of our armed and unarmed UAVs. He played a big role in the major success of our country in that field. We met for the last time at Technofest where we walked together. When he saw the projects of our youth he was very happy. We will miss you very much!

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So saddened to hear, RIP to all martyrs.. Losing high ranking soldiers with these type of crashes are thing to be investigated. Actually Cougars are reliable and powerful machines, however I cannot understand why do they fly in a such foggy and dangerous weather with high ranked people. Ok may be land transport is risky but look at the weather, it calls for helicopter accident. Are these helicopters safe to fly in these conditions? It is happening to often which is frustrating.

In South East and East, only blackhawks should be used, most modern ones, we need T70s urgently.
 

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Allah Rahmet Eylesin. Ruhulari sad olsun :(

I seriously hate helicopters a lot. Such flawed pieces of hardware.
 
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This is the 4th Cougar helicopter that crashed and cost the life of our soldiers. We should replace this French crap as soon as possible.

Lieutenant General Osman Erbas was not only a someone. He was a high ranking proud patriot from my homecity (Elazig) who fought his whole life against the PKK and FETÖ branches in East Turkey.

This crash must be investigated.
 

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