Turkey Seize Control Of US Airbase

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Turkey seize control of US airbase, telling US military to leave on Erdogan's orders

Thousands of Turkish protestors have taken control of a U.S. airbase in Turkey, under the orders of President Erdogan. 

The Incirlik Air Base contains an arsenal of nuclear weapons, which has been effectively seized by Turkish authorities.

Rt.com reports:

Regional television has been broadcasting the rally.

https://youtu.be/9YqyNTktQqg

Reports on social media suggest up to 1,000 people have gathered to support the demonstration.

Protesters have been shouting anti-American and anti-Israel slogans, according to an RT stringer.

https://twitter.com/PKKAnaliz/status/758707309229080576

Police have been deployed to block the entrance to the base, according to reports.

https://twitter.com/metesohtaoglu/status/758699080231059456

American officials have informed US citizens that the consulate in the city will be closed at the time of the protest.

The base has made the headlines recently in connection with the failed coup in Turkey, and searches have been conducted at the facility by Turkish prosecutors and police. The air base commander, General Bekir Ercan Van, has been detained at Incirlik by the Turkish authorities along with over a dozen lower ranking officers, all accused of complicity in the attempted coup.

Incirlik is used by NATO and stores US tactical nuclear weapons. Washington has been using the base in its campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in neighboring Syria and Iraq.

30 Comments

  1. This has been going on for a week and Turkey demands that the US give Turkey someone that fled Turkey 15 years ago to live in New Jersey and that person was a driving force behind the recent failed coup. Obama and the media just ignore it.

  2. If this true. Will the Americans have the guts to send in a massive troop reinforcement to protect their forces and weapons at the airport.

    • Remember the Ambassador and his men we handed over to the Libyans. The Democrats don’t have the b***s to put the fear of G-D in these heathens.

  3. MSM certainly hasn’t reported the base in Turkey has been taken over.I would love to know the truth. 

  4. No doubt the Pentagon was denied permission to withdraw the 50 B61 nuclear bombs from the base by Hussein Obama. Erdogans Turkey is on the way to becoming the next Iran

  5. a bunch of civilian protesters take over a U.S. military base where nuclear devices are kept??  Impossible.  Did this report start out with “once upon a time….”

    • security forces are armed.  They may start with tear gas but to protect nuclear interests they will shoot to kill.  I don’t think orders to stand down will be followed this time.  

    • Okay, for starters, Incirlik is not a U.S. military base. It is in fact a Turkish forces base. The U.S. troops are basically just visitors. I will say however, that this article is definitely an exaggeration. These people are protestors. Every year they march from Adana to Incirlik village, which is directly outside the base fence, and they protest for a few hours, then they disperse. They have never taken control of the base. The video footage shown is not from inside the base confines. It is of the speeches that are made in Adana before they march. I have personally witnessed this event…twice.
      Having said that, I do know that the wind is shifting in Turkey, in many ways. And it would be wise to keep an eye on them.
      Good day all

    • Thank you for this better informed report.  I was having a difficult time believing a lot of what was being said.  I simply cannot imagine ANY of our service members stationed there handing over any weapons system to the Turks.  Having served in the Air Force with Priority A systems, I know that nobody is going to get them without a lot of bloodshed.

  6. You cannot trust, believe, count on anything an islamic muslim jihad terrorist coward state ever has to say! Just look at all the crap that they have been saying about Israel for all these years… Liars, liars, liars!

  7. It’s NOT a US air base. It’s a Turkish air base that they let us fly in and out of in return for great sums of money.

  8. From the make believe world of news broadcasting we see the special phrases used to make news where it isn’t:  “Reports on social media suggest”,  ” according to reports.”,  and so forth.  One report says “up to 1000 protesters”, the next “thousands of protesters”.  And how are the forcefully taking over a nuclear weapons base?  ” Protesters have been shouting anti-American and anti-Israel slogans”.  Boy, that will cause the base to surrender for sure.  Move along folks, nothing to see here.

  9. Read Bible prophecy in the Old Testment.  Turkey will be aligned with other Middle East countries and Russia in an attempt to over throw Israel which will fail miserably. It’s called the Gog Magog war mentioned in Eziekiel 38. 

  10. Erodgan wants us extradite Gulen. The Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania. He blames Gulen for the first coup. He most likely was behind it. Gulen has donated over a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Erodgan said he will wage war on the US if we do not send him back. As of today he is still in Pennsylvania. This is a fact… military members are not allowed to say anything other than they are safe.

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