Did you know we had a military base where Syria fired the scuds into to Turkey? Ankara and Hatay are very close to each other.
Students March To US Military Base in Ankara,Turkey
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On May 6, university students from the Communist Party of Turkey and the Patriotic Front from all over Turkey held a demonstration in Ankara
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After that, students took off to Adana, a city in southern Turkey, to announce in front of the Incirlik Military Base that the US imperialism will be kicked out from the military base and from Turkey
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Adnan Kemal Basaran, who made a statement in the name of the demonstrators, said that the USA had come only for a few months but never left the Incirlik Base. He added that it was hurting the independence of the country that Incirlik Base or any part of out country was submitted to the orders of the USA and used in the interests of imperialism. He concluded that the USA had to go out of Incirlik.
Chanting slogans against the US imperialism and its collaborators, the demonstrators left the town with busses.
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1161/1/97/
It's too bad that's such a strategic base or we could just get out. Then they can watch all the money that base provides to the surrounding economy disappear!! And, I also wonder how much money our government pays them for that base?