Two Kyrgyz Nationals Killed In Helicopter Crash In Turkey

Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry said on September 18 that two Kyrgyz nationals and one Turkish citizen died in a helicopter crash in Turkey’s western province of Izmir two days earlier, adding that rescue teams found the last body in an artificial reservoir. The helicopter crashed into the reservoir as it was working to extinguish wildfires in the Menderes district on September 16. A fourth person aboard, a Kyrgyz citizen, survived the crash and is currently in hospital with multiple injuries. According to the ministry, work is under way to organize the repatriation of the bodies of the two Kyrgyz men. To read the original story by RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service, click here.