RİZE A light civilian aircraft crashed in the Kaçkar Mountains at the confluence of Türkiye’s Rize , Bayburt and Erzurum provinces, claiming the life of the pilot and leaving the sole passenger injured. The single-engine plane had departed from Eskişehir in central Türkiye and was headed toward the Black Sea city of Rize when it lost contact on the evening of July 2. A large-scale search and rescue operation was launched after passenger Hicran Kaya managed to place an emergency call, stating, “