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Incirlik Air Base, Turkey
Incirlik Air Base is an air base, located near İncirlik, Turkey. Incirlik Air Base is located 8 kilometers (5 miles) east of Adana, Turkey, the fifth largest city in the country, and is 56 kilometers (35 miles) inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The United States Air Force and the Turkish Air Force are the primary users of the air base, although it is also used by the Royal Air Force.
Incirlik Air Base is the home of the 10th Air Wing (Ana Jet Üs or AJÜ) of the 2nd Air Force Command (Hava Kuvvet Komutanlığı) of the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri). Other wings of this command are located in Merzifon (LTAP), Malatya/Erhaç (LTAT) and Diyarbakır (LTCC).
Incirlik Air Base has a U.S. Air Force complement of about five thousand airmen, with several hundred airmen from the Royal Air Force and Turkish Air Force also present, as of late 2002. The primary unit stationed at Incirlik Air Base is the 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) of the U.S. Air Force. Incirlik Air Base has one 3,048 m (10,000 ft)-long runway,[1][3] located among about 57 Hardened aircraft shelters.
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Fairfaxtimes.com
April 23, 2018
His forces have encircled, blacked out and menaced American troops stationed at Turkey's Incirlik air base. And now they are threatening to launch attacks on our U.S. Special Forces units in Syria. Furthermore, Erdogan has harshly imprisoned American pastor Andrew Brunson – a microcosmic example ofÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 14, 2018
Early on Saturday, the United States, the United Kingdom and France launched strikes on a number of targets in Syria in response to the alleged chemical attack in the Damascus' suburb of Douma. READ MORE: French Intel Alleges Syria Hiding Chemical Weapons Since 2013 — Report. Incirlik Air BaseÃâà...
Xinhua
April 14, 2018
ANKARA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Incirlik air base in southern Turkey was not used in the U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Saturday. Turkey was informed of the attack in advance, Bozdag said in a tweet on his twitter account. U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim MattisÃâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
April 3, 2018
The United States has transported the Armag weapons vault from Turkey's Incirlik Air base to another facility, YeniSafak reported. According to the source, a 40-ton portable weapons vault was transported to another country via a C-5M Super Galaxy transport aircraft. There has been no official explanationÃâà...
TRT World
March 30, 2018
Reports about the US army closing two air bases which are crucial for its operations in the region, Incirlik military air base in Turkey and Al Udeid military air base in Qatar, were denied by the US. According to a statement by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on March 25, these reports wereÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
March 26, 2018
“The U.S. is not leaving Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, nor is the U.S. leaving Al Udeid AB, Qatar. These reports are ... “There is zero credibility to news reports asserting the U.S. is leaving Incirlik and Al Udeid AB in Turkey and Qatar,” Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White tweeted Sunday. “These reports areÃâà...
Trade Arabia
March 24, 2018
The United States has started shifting its air base in Qatar's Al Udaid to Saudi Arabia in a major move that could redefine the country's ties in the ... administration is in the process of another momentous move, packing up its air force and quitting Incirlik in southern Turkey, the biggest air base in the region.
Gulf Digital News
March 23, 2018
The Pentagon is also looking at Andravida in southern Greece as a replacement for Incirlik. “US installations are being shipped out of Al Udaid in Qatar to the Prince Sultan Air base in central Saudi Arabia near Al Kharj, which lies 77km south of Riyadh,” DEBKAfile added. Fifteen years ago, this base wasÃâà...
Focus News
March 22, 2018
Though Germany relocated its forces from Incirlik to Jordan last year, after Ankara refused to allow a German delegation to visit the facility, Washington in ... by UD Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt – the air base at Nea Anchialos air base near Volos, and the air base of Kalamata, in the Peloponnese.
Defense One
March 12, 2018
Drawdown in Incirlik. We may have just witnessed the next casualty of the U.S. policy in Syria: a sharply scaled-back U.S. presence at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend. Built with U.S. help in the 1950s to help counter the Soviet Union, the base has in recent decadesÃâà...
Military Times
March 12, 2018
For the past several years, Incirlik Air Base has been a strategic linchpin in the bombing campaign against the Islamic State. (Staff Sgt. Eboni ... Friction between the United States and Turkey may be scaling back the U.S. footprint at the strategically important Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. The U.S.Ãâà...
Ahval
March 11, 2018
The U.S. military has sharply reduced combat operations at Turkey's İncirlik air base and is considering permanent cutbacks there, reports the Wall Street Journal. The U.S. officials told the WSJ that this shift was driven by tensions between Washington and Ankara. The U.S. has used the base to conductÃâà...
Air Force Link
December 31, 1999
Tech. Sgt. Jacob Wielgosiek, 39th Medical Operations Squadron surgical services flight chief, assists Master Sgt. Matthew Wilt, 39th Civil Engineer Squadron additional duty first sergeant, with yoga poses during a physical therapy session at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Feb. 2, 2018. Yoga can increase balanceÃâà...
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