Turkiye held funeral for Libyan crash victims

Turkiye held a military funeral ceremony on Saturday morning for five Libyan officers, including western Libya’s military chief, who died in a plane crash earlier this week. The private jet with General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, four other military officers and three crew members crashed on Tuesday after taking off from Ankara, Turkiye’s capital, killing everyone on board. Libyan officials said the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction on the plane. Al-Hadad was the top military commander in western Libya and played a crucial role in the ongoing, UN-brokered efforts to unify Libya’s military. The high-level Libyan delegation was on its way back to Tripoli, Libya’s capital, after holding defence talks in Ankara aimed at boosting military cooperation between the two countries.