ANKARA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday offered condolences to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev for the victims of a crash of an Azerbaijani Airlines plane.

In a phone call, Erdogan also expressed wishes for a speedy recovery for the wounded.

Earlier in the day, an Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau. Reports said 28 people on board survived the crash.

*Writing by Serdar Dincel