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Is Incirlik Air Base being held hostage by Turkey?
July 20, 2016 Is Incirlik Air Base being held hostage by Turkey?
Vero Beach, FL - (TRUNEWS) For a fifth consecutive day, Turkey has intentionally withheld power and vital supplies from the U.S.-NATO joint installation Incirlik Air Base.
According to our sources, verified by TRUNEWS as parents and spouses of U.S. airmen currently stationed at Incirlik Air Base, no supplies have been flown or driven into the installation since Saturday, food and water are being strictly rationed, and only one week of fuel reserves remain to power their electric generators.
A wife of a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) trapped in Incirlik Air Base told TRUNEWS correspondent Edward Szall that her husband ate only one meal Saturday at the bases dining facilities, and has since been sustaining himself on junk food and snacks.
“He told me that everyone is getting irritable, lots of amenities being taken away it’s starting to get to people,” the spouse said Tuesday night.
A mother of an airmen sequestered inside Incirlik told TRUNEWS that her son informed her early Wednesday that Turkish police are still blockading the base entrance, and that the electric generators — powering flight operations and the underground bunkers housing B-61 nuclear bombs — would remain on until fuel rations were extinguished. Her son also claimed that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter vetoed a plan to transfer all personnel and equipment from the base after the military coup began Friday night, citing that the move was “too expensive”.
On the July 19th edition of TRUNEWS, host Rick Wiles interviewed Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, regarding the nuclear armaments housed at Incirlik Air Base. During the interview Mr. Kristensen noted the B-61 warheads would take approximately three weeks to transfer from the underground bunkers in the event of an emergency, even with a full military contingency facilitating the move.
Another mother of an airmen on deployment inside Incirlik told TRUNEWS that soldiers have ripped the doors and windows out of the bases dorm rooms to alleviate overheating among personnel — an issue steadily growing as air conditioning has been segmented solely for mission critical buildings. The mother, who wished to be referred to as “GP” to protect her sons identity, said he also told her Wednesday that the base only had fuel reserves for one more week of operations, and that after a week they are going to “shut-off the networks”.
TRUNEWS has also been in direct contact with airmen stationed at Incirlik, and other than confirming previous reports that the base is still in lockdown and experiencing supply shortages, the soldiers unanimously believe the severing of commercial electricity to the base was an intentional move to leverage the United States government.
On the July 19th edition of TRUNEWS, Retired 4-Star U.S. Navy Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons told Rick Wiles that Turkey — as a NATO partner — has had their military personnel trained by U.S. counterparts on the procedures for transferring, loading, and using the nuclear warheads located under Incirlik Air Base.
Both the Public Affairs office at Incirlik Air Base and the 39th Mission Support Group commander, USAF Colonel Todd Stratton, have been contacted for comment.
In addition to the blockade,Turkish politicians loyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have publicly expressed concerns that U.S. officials used Incirlik Air Base to assist Friday’s military coup.
Debkafile reported Wednesday that Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim publicly insinuated that Americans may be viewed as partners, at least passive ones, in the conspiracy, in view of the use the plotters made of Incirlik for sending aircraft based there and arming them for the missions of intercepting the President’s airplane (which was never realized) and bombing the Parliament building in Ankara (which was).
Being more explicit, the Turkish Labor Minister, Süleyman Soylu, tweeted from his publicly verified twitter account:
“This coup has America behind.”
On Monday, a renowned Middle East correspondent named RamiAILolah, whose reports are often featured on ZeroHedge.com, led a call for a unified social media campaign under the hashtag “#CloseIncirlik”, tweeting to his followers:
“We all know they are war criminals but I need to do my part and so do you. I have a Twitter account & I need to do something.. Please tell your friends, families, everyone oppose the #USA terror strikes in #Syria & #Iraq about #CloseIncirlik. Spread it everywhere.”
RamiAlLolah also associated the #CloseIncirlik hashtag with the death of USAF 1st Lieutenant Anais Tobar, who was found dead in her room Wednesday, on a U.S. military base in the United Arab Emerites.
RamiAlLolah tweeted Wednesday:
“Ghosts of #Syria|n children? Anti-#ISIS #USA soldier Lt. Anais Tobar found dead in her room in #UAE”
#CloseIncirlik https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnzNJX_W8AAI2jr.jpg”
A Twitter account named Abu Maryam also used the #CloseIncirlik hashtag Wednesday, tweeting:
“#CloseIncirlik #Muslims will take revenge on the citizens of the west bcos of it .”
In response to the crisis, Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters Wednesday that he did not know when power may return to Incirlik Air Base.
Kerry said:
“we have not had our mission interrupted. Our mission continues, and we are told, our ambassador has been told, that the full power should be restored within a day or so to the base through the normal processes.”
Could Turkey be using Incirlik Air Base as a bargaining tool to form a nuclear caliphate? Could Incirlik Air Base be the next Benghazi?
Please contact TRUNEWS correspondent Edward Szall with any news tips related to this story. Email: Edward.Szall@trunews.com | Twitter: @@EdwardSzall | Facebook: Edward Szall | Cell: 321-200-6431
Does this sound like Ezekiel 38? I used to work around some nukes back in another time and saw some scary thinks happen that could have resulted in a lot of destruction.
Only takes the local Texas boys a couple of hours to get power restored around here. And that even includes transformers that go pop. If it takes Turkey more than one day, it is because they want it to take that long. So what Kerry heard was just BS. A day or so my butt.
Yes that is a possibility. If they run out of fuel and Turkey keeps the power off, they may not even be able to access the nukes. They are underground and I assume they need lifts to bring them up to ground level. At that point, the nukes are Turkeys. The next step will be getting them without the destructs being performed. Does the destruct also need power ? Do the nukes have internal batteries ?
This is speculation...but it’s how I think things are done.
They almost certainly have internal batteries..
They would permanently disable the nuke’s electronics and then collapse the walls and drop an enormous amount of concrete and dirt on them.
Then come in force to recover them... they can bomb the site with drones or missiles to keep the Turks out....they could even do this for years if need be.
Israel has low-yield neutron weapons that she could use to keep the Turks away from the buried weapons...but conventional would probably suffice.
They could go to Tbilisi and would be welcomed warmly.
It’s not that far from where they are now....I sent Putin a tweet asking him to get them out. Bet he laughs about that!
Erdogan should be TLA-executed.
He is contrary to the interests of the United States.
Nope. It's a capitulation.
If it happens, the officials responsible should be considered traitors.
bfl
The whole situation seems crazy.
Three weeks to move the nukes?
They are out of fuel in 1 week, which is not good.
The B61 Mod 12 device consists of the aerodynamic bomb casing structure that mounts on the plane and the Physics Package which holds the thermonuclear device, detonator and trigger mechanism.
The physics package which contains the nuclear materials is separate and removable from the bomb . It's actually quite small - say a couple feet in diameter by a couple feet long. Easy to transport and easy to secure until mounted on bomb casing
I have to assume that the US Military is taking all appropriate steps to secure the devices - these are thermonuclear weapons we are talking about.
But then again, this is the Obama Administration we are talking about.
I would not put it past them to actually be colluding with Islamists to hand over the weapons. They certainly did this with our weapons in Iraq and actually supplied weapons to Islamists in Syria
Going to be interesting for the next several weeks.
It's total BS and Obama is playing games here.
NOBODY messes with the US military when it comes to security of our nukes unless we are letting them - especially not a country like Turkey with a strong Islamic terror network.
The fact is that Turkey has our base under siege and Obama is letting them get away with this which is ominous.
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