{"id":38542,"date":"2016-08-11T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2016\/08\/11\/air-force-relationships-with-turkey-a-concern-in-wake-of-coup-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:10:26","slug":"air-force-relationships-with-turkey-a-concern-in-wake-of-coup-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2016\/08\/11\/air-force-relationships-with-turkey-a-concern-in-wake-of-coup-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force relationships with Turkey a concern in wake of coup attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Air Force will <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">be able to <\/span>\u200bcontinue to fly missions out of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey,\u00a0despite ongoing turmoil following a failed coup there\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">in Turkey <\/span>\u200blast month, Air Force officials said <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">on <\/span>\u200bWednesday.\u00a0<br\/><br\/><span class=\"rte rte-comment\">At least in the short term, as <\/span>\u200bU.S. military leaders hope to restore or create new relationships with their Turkish counterparts,\u00a0Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told reporters at a State of the Air Force briefing with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein<span class=\"rte rte-comment\"> on Wednesday<\/span>\u200b.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>&#8220;Of course, it\u2019s concerning because with so many members of the [Turkish] leadership gone, it\u2019s going to take them time to grow new leaders and replace, so it remains to be seen what happens next,&#8221; James said<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told reporters at a state of the Air Force briefing with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein on Wednesday<\/span>\u200b.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>&#8220;They obviously are our ally. We stand with them, they\u2019re an effective air force, and Incirlik is an important location for our joint fight,&#8221; she said, referencing the ongoing air war against the Islamic State, in which Incirlik plays a\u00a0strategic role. The U.S. has manned and unmanned aircraft at Incirlik, which is about 100 miles from the border with Syria.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey closed the airspace at Incirlik and cut power to to the base in July when a faction within the Turkish armed forces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">group of\u00a0Turkish soldiers took to the streets in an<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200battempted to overthrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the country&#8217;s p<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200bPresident Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. Turkey re-opened the airspace and turned the lights back on about a week later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The relationship between Turkey and the U.S. has frayed in the aftermath of the attempted takeover.\u00a0Turkey&#8217;s government says Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally now living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, masterminded the attempted coup and has\u00a0demanded his extradition. Washington has asked for evidence of the cleric&#8217;s involvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan also accused Army Gen. Joseph Votel,\u00a0the head of U.S. Central Command, of &#8220;siding with coup plotters,&#8221; a charge Votel denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey re-opened airspace and turned the lights back on at Incirlik in July after hostile soldiers for a week took to the street to denounce the country&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We certainly condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the attempted coup,&#8221; James said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">continued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b. &#8220;We\u2019re beyond that now. Many thousands of people have been arrested\u00a0and we, of course, defer to the government of Turkey as to who needs to be arrested, who needs to be punished for this action. Incirlik is a key location, Turkey overall is a very important ally.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is another reason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more reasons than one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200bthat Incirlik is so crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports suggest the air base\u00a0houses roughly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fifty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b 50 B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b61 hydrogen bombs, said Hans M. Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a missile-carrying nuclear warhead, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200btactical weapons are capable of destroying battlefield formation units at a much faster rate of speed than conventional weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They work just fine,&#8221; Kristensen told Air Force Times on July 21. &#8220;But the overall weapon needs an overhaul from time to time. That cycle is coming up. The versions in Europe were produced in the 1980s,&#8221; he said in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The first B61-12 will come off the production line in 2020 and probably go to Europe a couple of years later.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of 200 B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b61s in use by the United States, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-h-bombs-in-turkey\">25 percent remain in Turkey<\/a>, where they first appeared during the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200bCold War era as a means to deter Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Geostrategically and geopolitically, [Incirlik is] an extremely important base and location, and not just now \u2014 that goes all the way back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200bto the Cold War &#8230; and being a long-term NATO ally,&#8221; retired Air Force Lt. 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