President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone call with Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah on Wednesday. Erdoğan extended his condolences on behalf of Türkiye for the loss of the Libyan chief of general staff and his entourage in a plane crash on Tuesday.
A private jet carrying Libyan Chief of General Staff Gen. Mohammed al-Haddad and four other people crashed after takeoff from Ankara. The jet lost all radio contact after issuing an emergency landing alert near the Haymana district south of Ankara, Turkish officials said.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that the wreckage of a Falcon 50-type business jet, which took off from the Esenboğa Airport en route to Tripoli, was found by gendarmerie teams about 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) south of Kesikkavak village in Haymana. Al-Haddad and others were on an official visit to Ankara on Tuesday, where they met National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler.
Security forces located the wreckage overnight despite heavy rain and fog. Operations accelerated at daybreak, with gendarmerie units securing the area and preventing civilian access.
