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ISTANBUL: Underwater teams are trying to recover a helicopter that crashed in a lake over the weekend, killing three crew members, while fighting a forest fire in western Turkey, state media reported Monday. Four crew members were aboard the firefighting aircraft when it fell into the waters of the Tahtali dam while battling a blaze in Izmir's Menderes district. One pilot, a national of Kyrgyzstan, swam to safety following the accident late Saturday. The bodies of three other crew members - a Turk and two Kyrgyz personnel -...