Secretary General of Grand Unity Party (BBP) Yalcin Topcu said Muhsin Yazicioglu, leader of BBP, Erhan Ustundag, Yuksel Yanci, Murat Cetinkaya, Ismail Gunes and Kaya Istektepe lost their lives in the helicopter crash, reported Anadolu Agency.
On Friday, Deputy deputy chairman of BBP, Mustafa Destici, said that Yazicioglu is not among the five dead people who died in Wednesday's helicopter crash, reported World bulletin.
A helicopter carrying six people, including politician Muhsin Yazicioglu, crashed near the southern province of Kahramanmaras on Wednesday afternoon. The helicopter was on its way from Kahramanmaras to the central province of Yozgat with five passengers and the pilot on board.
The Prime Ministry Directorate General for Crisis Management announced in second day of search and rescue efforts that nearly 2 thousand people including soldiers, civil defense teams, health teams and local villagers are participating in the search-and rescue efforts," it said.
But the wreckage was found by a group of 17 people including voluntary villagers and village guards found in Kanlıcukur region 47 hours after the crash. The rescue efforts were carried out in the wrong place.
17 villages who found the wreckage said, "front part of the helicopter was in pieces. The helicopter is covered with snow. We found the body of 5 people. Their faces are covered with 2 cm ice".
Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the helicopter crashed, one of the survivors managed to make a cell phone call to an emergency service, reported CNN.
Reporter Ismail Gunes pleaded by phone, saying, "I'm starting to freeze. I feel cold. It is snowing. I am inside the helicopter. I guess the people here died. Erhan, brother. Erhan, brother. Nothing. No sound from anyone. So bad."
A female dispatcher tells Gunes that the police are trying to locate him.
He then calls out again: "Erhan, brother. Brother, try to (open your eyes). He is lying, moaning." Watch the search through snow and ice for helicopter "
"Is there any other sound from anyone?" the dispatcher asks.
"No, no," Gunes says. "My foot is broken badly. Miss, haven't you located us yet? We will freeze here. I guess the other people are dead. I can't move my foot. It is broken really badly. When will you determine our location, miss?"
The crash happened in a mountainous region of eastern Turkey amid rough terrain and adverse weather conditions, officials and media reports said.
It also occurred just days before municipal elections across the country.