Reconnaissance plane crash kills seven Turkish security personnel

ANKARA: At least seven Turkish security work force were killed after their plane collided with a mountain in the east of the nation, state media gave an account of Thursday. 

The observation plane collided with Mount Artos, a lethargic fountain of liquid magma in the region of Van, Anadolu news organization revealed inside clergyman Suleyman Soylu as saying. 

Correspondence with the airplane — which was conveying two pilots and five "specialized work force" — had been lost at around 10.45 pm (1945 GMT) Wednesday, he stated, including it had slammed at an elevation of 2,200 meters (7,200 feet). 

Soylu later showed up to investigate the location of the accident, as per pictures posted on his Twitter account that demonstrated him close by military staff in tough territory. 

The 2015-model plane had been directing "observation and reconnaissance" in Van and the overwhelmingly Kurdish Hakkari region since Monday, Anadolu said. 

Hakkari area outskirts Iraq and has seen various conflicts between Turkish powers and Kurdish aggressors during a decades-in length uprising. 

Van common senator Mehmet Emin Bilmez paid tribute to the seven "saints" on Twitter and sent sympathies to their families. 

An administration examination concerning the occurrence was in progress, he included. 

Two Turkish pilots passed on in 2018 when a military preparing plane smashed during an activity in the western area of Izmir. 

Remote and rocky Van area on Turkey's eastern fringe was struck by two torrential slides in February that murdered 41 individuals. 

Prior that month a size 5.7 quake in neighboring Iran harmed handfuls in the territory.