What idiot takes his/her family over there anyway?
So a NATO ally is not safe enough for Americans? This is insane.
Pull up your jockstraps and move out. The JV is coming.
This is what happens when you “lead from behind.” Run America! Run!
They must have not gotten Obama’s order to stand down or else he didn’t know about it at all.
***When do we evacuate American citizens from Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden? (They all have the same thing in common)***
I’m wondering the same thing. And why just southern Turkey? Shouldn’t it be the entire country?
From the article:
“Military officials said they had recommended the voluntary departure from Incirlik because of specific calls by militants for lone wolf attacks against the air base.
According to a U.S. official, the decision to order families to leave stemmed from the ongoing assessment of security threats in Turkey.
The decision comes a day after Israel issued a new travel advisory for Turkey, warning its citizens to leave the country as soon as possible and to avoid any traveling there.”
Things seem to be moving to a conclusion in Syria this year.
Possibilities:
1. They expect jihadi attacks to spike up in Turkey, either in retaliation for the upcoming fall of the caliphate, or due to the jihadis flowing into Syria after the fall.
2. We might be heading for a downsizing or expulsion from these bases, based on talks with Turkey.
3. The US is trying to squeeze Turkey into concessions in the Syria talks by threatening pullout, like Putin has been doing to Assad.
I lived there as a kid. Dad was military. We lived right in the community not on a base. No way would that be possible today.
Erdogan has been moving Turkey back to radical Islam and away from Western ways and values. This move signals Turkey will soon be lost and may withdraw from NATO. I think Erdogan wants that anyway.
WWIII just got a lot closer. Turkey is/was a buffer between the West and the Middle East. Soon that dividing line will be on the Europe side of Turkey making radical Middle East/Islam that much bigger. I’m positive there are a lot of Turks who are not happy about this. Sad. Turkey is really an amazing country under terrible leadership but he keeps getting re-elected. We had that same problem here in 2012.