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Europe · from 1951

Incirlik Air Base

Turkish-American Air Force base near Incirlik, Turkey.

History

Incirlik Air Base (Turkish: İncirlik Hava Üssü) (IATA: UAB, ICAO: LTAG) is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey. The base is within an urban area of 1.7 million people, 10 km (6 mi) east of the city core, and 32 km (20 mi) 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 at times also used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Saudi Air Force. The base is also the home of the 73rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment (Patriot unit) of the Spanish Army.

Incirlik Air Base is the home of the 10th Main Jet Base (Ana Jet Üssü or AJÜ) of the Combatant Air Force Command (Muharip Hava Kuvveti Komutanlığı) of the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri). The base with all of its facilities is owned by the Turkish Air Force.

Incirlik Air Base has a U.S. Air Force (USAF) 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, located among about 57 hardened aircraft shelters. Tactical nuclear weapons are stored at the base. Among them are "up to" 50 B61 nuclear bombs.

Text from Wikipedia: Incirlik Air Base, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Key dates

  1. 1943
    The decision to build the Incirlik Air Base was made during the Second Cairo Conference in December 1943, but construction only began after the end of the Second World War.
  2. 1956
    The Incirlik Air Base was the main U-2 flight base in this entire region beginning in 1956.
  3. 1974
    This action was in response to an arms embargo that the United States Congress imposed on Turkey for using American-supplied equipment during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
  4. 1996
    The U.S. State Department's "Operation Quick Transit" evacuated thousands of Kurds from northern Iraq late in 1996.
  5. 2003
    Operation Northern Watch (ONW) ended with the start of the Iraq War on 19 March 2003.
  6. 2004
    On 6 January 2004, more than 300 U.S. Army soldiers of what would become thousands transited through Incirlik as the first stop back to their home post after spending almost a year in Iraq.
  7. 2006
    On 26 June 2006, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald visited the base to show support for American airmen and their families.
  8. 2010
    In 2010, three Armenian Americans filed a lawsuit against the Republic of Turkey and two banks for compensation of 122 acres (0.49 km2) of land in the Adana region of Turkey, where Incirlik Air Base currently stands.
  9. 2016
    Laicie Heeley, a fellow with the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program at the Stimson Center said in 2016:

Dates and events quoted from the same Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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