Turkey could shut down the Incirlik air base, which hosts about 5,000 American airmen, as a countermeasure to Washington’s renewed threats of sanctions
close down its Incirlik air base In the Incirlik air base, the US has a sizable Air Force personnel estimated to be about 5,000 military men.
Ankara began considering closing the military bases in retaliation for Washington’s possible sanctions and the Congress’sfavouring the Armenian allegations on the 1915 events, accusing Turkey of an alleged “genocide”, a charge Ankara denies. Turkey is the second biggest army in NATO. Since the 1950s, its bases have helped the alliance in protecting its southern wing against perceived threats emerging from the former Soviet Union and its successor state Russia.
In 2004, the base was reportedly one of the centres of Washington’s largest military movement concerning Iraq in the US history, providing its troops what they need during their stops there after their comeback from deployments. The US has sent tons of modern military equipment to the YPG, arming the group to the teeth, escalating tensions with Ankara. As Turkey conducted its anti-terror operation against the YPG/PKK, many US lawmakers expressed their opposition to Ankara’s military actions, disregarding its grave concerns in northern Syria.
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