The Turkish National Defense Ministry has revealed that a Turkish military plane on a mission to rescue Turkish residents from conflict-torn Sudan has been done.
The Turkish C-130, which was en route to Wadi Seidna Air Base to evacuate its residents in Khartoum, was hit by small arms fire, according to a Turkish government statement on Friday.
However, the statement added that the plane made a safe landing and that no injuries had been reported, as reported by TRTWorld.
The Sudanese military responded to the news by blaming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for shooting down the Turkish plane.
However, the RSF claimed that the Sudanese army was lying when it said that they had opened fire on the plane.
“Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight, and it is not true that we targeted any aircraft in the sky of Wadi Seidna in Omdurman.
“How can it be reasonable for our forces to attack a Turkish evacuation plane while it was us who protected the mission in recent days and helped evacuations in all districts of the capital,” the RSF said in a statement.
In spite of the development however, the Turkish ministry revealed that “the first group of our citizens was safely brought to Türkiye by planes belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces.”
