{"id":16279,"date":"2026-11-12T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/turkey-military-helicopter-crash-kills-four\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:46:11","slug":"turkey-military-helicopter-crash-kills-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/turkey-military-helicopter-crash-kills-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey military helicopter crash kills four"},"content":{"rendered":"<article readability=\"15.06\">A military helicopter crashed in eastern Turkey on Thursday, killing four personnel, the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour of our heroic comrades-in-arms on board were martyred when our S-70 helicopter crashed in Malatya for reasons that have not yet been determined,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed ambulances and fire engines dispatched to the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray to God for mercy upon our heroic soldiers who were martyred,\u201d Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on X.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at around 6:45 pm (1545 GMT) in the Yesilyurt district of Malatya, the private NTV broadcaster reported. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A fire broke out after the helicopter crashed and search operations began once it had been extinguished,\u00a0it said.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military helicopter crashed in eastern Turkey on Thursday, killing four personnel, the defence ministry said. \u201cFour of our heroic comrades-in-arms on board were martyred when our S-70 helicopter crashed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}