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‘Turkey will close Incirlik airbase to US if support for YPG continues’ (Erdogan threatens US?)
KOM News ^ | 1 March 2017 | none stated

Posted on 03/01/2017 7:19:58 AM PST by Texas Fossil

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Turkey did not allow the US to use Incirlik air force base during the Gulf War.

I do not think that Trump is impressed with bullies. Erdogan is totally off the rails with his actions since the "coup" (real or fau).

Any opinions on where this goes?

Note: I do not believe this statement is true.

"The US has denied supporting Kurdish forces in Syria saying it is only supporting the Arab coalition within the SDF."

1 posted on 03/01/2017 7:19:58 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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US F-14 jets taking off from the aircraft carrier have been using Turkish air space to fly Syria and Iraq.

The Navy is no longer using the Tomcat.
2 posted on 03/01/2017 7:23:05 AM PST by microgood
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I think you would be shocked at the number of idiots in DC and the Pentagon who are hyped to keep Incirlik at all cost. Having seen all of the games played on base...it’s absolutely worthless in retaining it. It’s imaginary value in keeping the installation open...it won’t be used when you need it the most.

Go ask them about the Incirlik barracks that was newly constructed and sat there for at least six years before it could be fixed enough to utilize. I doubt if they got more than decade of use out of it before it had to be torn down.


3 posted on 03/01/2017 7:25:40 AM PST by pepsionice
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Whoever made that statement lied

The “SDF” is largely a Kurdish army with some Arab militia thrown in to give it a more Syrian flavor

Dealing with Turkey will be one of Trump’s more delicate messes to clean up but with the team of people he has working for him, it will get done. They are part of the entire strategy to defeating ISIS, whether they work with us or against us

PS: I don’t see Erdogan playing the “US vs the Russians” card like he did in the past, with the new 4-D chess playing sheriff in the WH. I think the Saudis appreciate that the game has changed, soon Erdogan must do the same


4 posted on 03/01/2017 7:31:13 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Nuke Turkey. Should have been done long ago.


5 posted on 03/01/2017 7:32:05 AM PST by Snowybear
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I know a retired pilot who operated out of Incirlik, he said basically what you just stated.

I had asked him about the bomb storage there, worrying about the security? He said it they have been gone a very long time. Others here agreed with that.

Erdogan is totally insane. He believes his own lies.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 7:35:01 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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No problem... we can build a base in the YPG region.


7 posted on 03/01/2017 7:35:32 AM PST by Keen-Minded
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OK, lets piss Erdogan off, build a base or bases in Arbil or Kirkuk. We could have a couple of bases in operation within weeks. I don’t think the Kurds would mind having us as guests.


8 posted on 03/01/2017 7:37:52 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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I suppose there is an air base in Israel the U.S. could use.


9 posted on 03/01/2017 7:42:38 AM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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FOB “Rojava”


10 posted on 03/01/2017 7:57:26 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Since 1962 Turkey has threatened to kick us out of Incirlik AB over 4000 times. lol ! I was stationed there as a member of the Tactical Air Command (TAC) and can assure you that this piss-ant base could be replaced by increasing some Navy assets in the Med. Sea and building a strip or two in Kurdish territory. Frankly, Turkey has been given billions in aid over the years and is now a complete mess given the rise of Islamic terrorism.


11 posted on 03/01/2017 8:00:58 AM PST by Kahuna
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The bombs are there. Alls we need is some detonation.


12 posted on 03/01/2017 8:05:32 AM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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One of the more amusing stories I can tell:

During Northern Watch...the Brits, French and Americans utilized the base. The French came one day to decide “enough” and were going to leave. They had brought around thirty of these small Renault-trucks as part of their support apparatus. They had no interest in keeping the trucks (I’d say they were all 3-to-4 years old and with low mileage, but prone to break-downs).

So the Brits got with the French and made a deal. Far as I know....no money exchanged hands...just that on morning after the French left...a French officer would hand the keys to the trucks over to the Brits, and the trucks were all in a locked compound. Simple deal.

So the morning arrives. The Brit officer shows up and the French officer, but the gate is wide-open and the trucks gone. Then they notice a Turkish Army private driving by in one of the trucks. They end up going to investigate and conclude that the Turks have this unwritten rule...whatever is abandoned on Incirlik....is their property, end of the story.

The trucks were now Turk property.

If you notice, no permanently based aircraft have ever been taken into Incirlik. Everything comes and goes. The Americans know the rule by heart.

Whichever idiot Air Force officer gets stuck with closing Incirlik is looking at a massive amount of stress. Everything will be grabbed at various stages and it’ll impossible to announce this closure without it happening within forty-eight hours....forget about some six-month schedule. They might as well truck everyone to the nearest sea-port and board some cargo vessels to leave.


13 posted on 03/01/2017 8:08:30 AM PST by pepsionice
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Incirlik Airbase, Turkey has the history of being an American base established at a time of ‘fencing in’ the Soviet threat.

It was also a base where American forces assigned units of first-generation cruise missiles (the size of small jets) which came to be known, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Today, there is no threat of Soviet expansion.

Therefore, it would be a cost-saving measure to remove all American military personnel from Incirlik, and allow the Turks the entire base, with one caveat.

Leave it in the same condition we left airbases in France, when DeGaulle demanded we leave his country, i.e., cratered the runways, and demolished the buildings.

Turkey, and Erdogan, have hookah-related dreams of revitalizing the old pre-Attaturk Ottoman Empire.


14 posted on 03/01/2017 8:09:12 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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Was deployed there while in the Marine Corps a couple of times. Horrible for an Air force expeditionary Airbase, great for the Marines though. Couldn’t trust the Turks to protect us so we bought shotguns off base and kept them in our tents (Turks wouldn’t allow Marines to bring weapons into the country). Air force made us put them in the Armory at least once every 24 hrs. So we would turn them in and get back in line to check them out, that lasted about three days then they said we could keep our weapons. Good shotguns (Hugla ), lousy ammo. Found one guy who would sell us Israeli ammo, hypocrites


15 posted on 03/01/2017 8:11:17 AM PST by Garvin (The Fourth Estate is The Fifth Column.)
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Go build an airstrip in the free part of northern Iraq. Let the Turks be Turks. Dissolve NATO; it’s become as useful as the UN Peacekeepers.


16 posted on 03/01/2017 8:27:28 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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I bet that Trump could convince Assad to give US access to an air base in Syria.

That would certainly miff tErdogan. :-)


17 posted on 03/01/2017 8:29:53 AM PST by Bobalu (The fool has said in his heart that there is no God...I am not a fool.)
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Just a quick comment from Trump to their guy: Close Incirlik and we will support a homeland for our friends the Kurds. Now, next idea please.


18 posted on 03/01/2017 8:31:24 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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19 posted on 03/01/2017 8:34:49 AM PST by kabar
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Yep I had my own shotgun and found the dove hunting to be a hell of a kick. The Turks would fetch your downed birds in exchange for a tasty treat or two. We had some decent dove-ke-bob recipes.


20 posted on 03/01/2017 8:44:43 AM PST by Kahuna
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