Earlier today, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said that gunfire was fired at a military plane carrying Turkish nationals out of the conflict-torn Sudan.
According to a statement from the Turkish government on Friday, the Turkish C-130 aircraft came under small arms fire while en route to Wadi Seidna Air Base to evacuate its citizens from Khartoum.
The Turkish National Defense Ministry and TRT World, among other sources, reported that the plane landed safely with no injuries.
While details about those who carried out the attack are still hazy, the Sudanese Army claimed that the paramilitary, known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for the shooting in Khartoum.
In a prompt response, the RSF denied all allegations against it, claiming that the Sudanese Army was trying to harm its reputation despite being exemplary in respect to the ceasefire agreement.
“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 this in a statement in Khartoum.
