Erdoğan offers condolences for plane crash victims

March 13 2018 09:48:28

Erdoğan offers condolences for plane crash victims

ANKARA – Anadolu Agency

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has offered his condolences to the victims of a Turkish plane crash on March 11 in Iran.

On the telephone, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 12 offered condolences to Hüseyin Başaran, the father of Mina Başaran, according to a Turkish presidential source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on talking to the media.

All 11 people on board died in the crash of the private plane, en route from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul.

The Başaran Holding private plane went down in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran late on Sunday.

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