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The Drive
April 27, 2018
With all this in mind, there have been repeated calls for stopping the export of the F-35 to Turkey and for the U.S. to pull its tactical nuclear weapons out of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, but this is the first time those calls have morphed into legislation. It will be interesting to see how the Trump administration,Ãâà...
RT
April 18, 2018
In 2017, Koutsoumpas said that the Araxos base in western Greece is being upgraded to receive US nuclear warheads from the NATO base at Turkey's Incirlik. Greek communist newspaper Rizospastis then dubbed the possible move as "playing with fire." The news triggered rallies in the third largest city inÃâà...
Indiana Gazette
April 17, 2018
Turkey is allegedly a NATO ally, allowing U.S. planes to fly against ISIS from Incirlik. But Erdogan ... To cement Russian influence in Turkey, Putin is building a $20 billion nuclear reactor there and has just sold Erdogan $2.5 billion in sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to use against someone's planes.
The Guardian
April 15, 2018
Perhaps the 1983 missile standoff in Europe, when a Nato exercise, Able Archer, almost triggered a panicked nuclear launch by the Soviet Union. The level of .... The continuing tension puts in doubt Centcom's ability to use its airbase in Turkey near the Syrian border at Incirlik. It does not appear to haveÃâà...
Arab News
April 15, 2018
... level of the operations is in Turkey's interest by sending a message to Assad and Iran, creating pressure on them for a political settlement and counter-balancing Tehran. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Bekir Bozdag, announced on Saturday that the Incirlik air base, which also holds US nuclear weapons,Ãâà...
Novinite.com
April 12, 2018
Faced with Turkish restrictions, US air force combat operations at the Incirlik base, close to Syria's border, have been run down. ... Since then, bilateral cooperation on nuclear power, energy pipelines from Russia to Turkey and Europe, tourism, investment, arms sales and military-to-military ties haveÃâà...
Laredo Morning Times
April 12, 2018
Turkey is allegedly a NATO ally, allowing U.S. planes to fly against ISIS from Incirlik. ... To cement Russian influence in Turkey, Putin is building a $20 billion nuclear reactor there and has just sold Erdogan $2.5 billion in sophisticated antiaircraft missiles to use against someone's planes. That's the sameÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
April 11, 2018
Turkey is allegedly a NATO ally, allowing U.S. planes to fly against ISIS from Incirlik. But Erdogan ... To cement Russian influence in Turkey, Putin is building a $20 billion nuclear reactor there and has just sold Erdogan $2.5 billion in sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to use against someone's planes.
Military Times
April 2, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin heads back to Turkey on Tuesday, joining Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for a Russian-made nuclear power plant being built on Turkey's Mediterranean coast at Akkuyu. On Wednesday, Putin, Erdogan and IranianÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 2, 2018
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are today scheduled to jointly lay the ground for Turkey's first nuclear power plant in ... Turkey is a member of Moscow's rival NATO, and the plant will be located 190 kilometers southwest of the major airbase İncirlik, which is open toÃâà...
The Hill
March 29, 2018
Supporters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action believe new sanctions on Iran, even for non-nuclear transgressions, will destroy the deal. ... Last year, says former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman, there were “several attempts to impress upon the United States that Incirlik could be cut off atÃâà...
The Intercept
March 23, 2018
Among those most alarmed by President Donald Trump's selection of John Bolton as his new national security adviser on Thursday were supporters of the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran's nuclear program in exchange for a partial lifting of economic sanctions.
The Hill
March 6, 2018
The United States should remove dozens of nuclear weapons presently stored at Incirlik air base in southern Turkey. Although adequate safeguards are in place, these weapons serve no practical purpose (aircraft stationed at the base cannot load them) and their continued presence might be misconstruedÃâà...
Rudaw
March 2, 2018
Recent reports indicating major changes in Iraq as well as potential changes in Iraq-US relations are worth an examination. Among these are reports of Iraqi Army units abandoning positions in Kirkuk and Diyala, reducing even further the level of security in the area. There has also been an unconfirmedÃâà...
The Zimbabwe Standard
March 2, 2018
The United States plans to spend $10 billion upgrading 150 cold war-era nuclear bombs stationed in Europe, even though the weapons may be more of a ... A third of the B61 bombs in Europe under joint US-Nato control are believed to be stored at Turkey's Incirlik Airbase – which was locked down andÃâà...
Daily Sabah
February 23, 2018
The deputy chairman of the Patriotic Party, Beyazıt Karataş, said that the nuclear warheads that were deployed in İncirlik in 2009 turned Turkey into a nuclear target. "Thus, this base that made Turkey a nuclear target andis used by the U.S. to support terrorist organizations by violating the rights that wereÃâà...
The Independent
February 16, 2018
It should be assumed that they are targets for terrorism and theft,” a report by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) found. In March 2016, the Pentagon evacuated military families from Incirlik due to “Isis-related security concerns”. In July, the commanding officer of the base was arrested for his alleged role in anÃâà...
Breaking Defense
February 15, 2018
On the night of the coup Turkish national police entered Incirlik and arrested a Turkish general there suspected of complicity. For nearly a week the power and flight operations were shut down at the base, which houses an arsenal of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons. The Turkish public was so traumatized byÃâà...
The Guardian
February 15, 2018
The Turkish commanding officer at Incirlik was arrested for his alleged role in the plot. A report on the future of the B61 bombs by arms control advocacy group the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) , made available to the Guardian, said the 2016 events show “just how quickly assumptions about the safety andÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 7, 2018
It's 2018 now and the US have declared the nuclear weapons strategy, while, in fact, they have been carrying it out since 2009. As part of this strategy the 3rd and 4th outdated versions of the B61 atomic bombs located at the Incirlik base have long been replaced by a modern, more powerful version, theÃâà...
Business Insider
January 22, 2018
The US and Turkey are on opposite sides of a conflict in Syria, with Turkey bombing US-backed forces that helped defeat ISIS. Turkey has had a growing list of grievances with the US for years, and many have picked up on the rift as Turkey drifts closer to NATO. The US has dozens of nuclear weaponsÃâà...
New York Times
October 13, 2017
Turkey has been a vital ally of the United States since World War II. It fields NATO's second-largest army, after America's, and anchors the alliance's eastern flank. It hosts military bases that are central to American operations in the Middle East, including Incirlik, where some 50 tactical nuclear weapons areÃâà...
Washington Examiner
June 26, 2017
U.S. European Command, which oversees U.S. operations at Incirlik Air Base, while not acknowledging the presence of nuclear weapons at the base, said there are no security concerns overall. "Our strategic assets are stored under highly secure conditions and under U.S. control," said Air Force Capt.
Breaking Israel News
December 31, 1999
Pull American nuclear weapons: Incirlik hosts an estimated 50 nuclear bombs; they should be removed immediately. This vestige of the Cold War makes no military sense and, reportedly, planes based at Incirlik cannot even load these weapons. Worse, it is just conceivable that the host government mightÃâà...
Focus News
December 31, 1999
Faced with Turkish restrictions, US air force combat operations at the Incirlik base, close to Syria's border, have been run down. ... Since then, bilateral cooperation on nuclear power, energy pipelines from Russia to Turkey and Europe, tourism, investment, arms sales and military-to-military ties haveÃâà...
Hawaii Tribune Herald
December 31, 1999
Turkey is allegedly a NATO ally, allowing U.S. planes to fly against ISIS from Incirlik. But Erdogan ... To cement Russian influence in Turkey, Putin is building a $20 billion nuclear reactor there and has just sold Erdogan $2.5 billion in sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to use against someone's planes.
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
Even today, such arrangements are not unusual for the United States, which keeps upward of 100 nuclear bombs at NATO bases in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. Incirlik Air Base in Turkey hosts dozens of American nuclear weapons that are designed to be delivered by US and TurkishÃâà...
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