The head of the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan, Colonel-General Ali Nagiyev, expressed his condolences to the Minister of National Defense of Turkey Hulusi Akar, Chief of the General Staff General of the Army Yashar Guler and the head of the National Security Organization Hakan Fidan, the SSS website reports.
“We are deeply saddened by the news of the death of the commander of the 8th Army Corps General Osman Erbash and other high-ranking officers in Bitlis as a result of the crash of a military helicopter belonging to the Ground Forces of brotherly Turkey, as well as the news of the injury of 11 Turkish soldiers as a result of a road transport Accidents of a military vehicle in the Shirnak region. I wish from the Almighty the repose of the souls of martyrs, I express deep condolences to their families and share with them their grief, and I also wish a speedy recovery to all the wounded, “the appeal says.