Islamic State
Coup attempt for the time being without effect on Anti-IS fight
The Turkey is the most important ally in the fight against the terror militia IS in Syria and Iraq. The air base Incirlik plays a key role in this – that the coup attempt to change anything.
“We continue to fly sorties out of Incirlik,” said an officer of the U.S. Department of defense, who wanted to remain anonymous, the AFP news Agency. The Situation in Turkey have “no effect on the stakes in the fight against the so-called Islamic state (IS)”. In the same manner, the defence Ministry said in Berlin.
The air base Incirlik is strategically located near the Turkish-Syrian border. The USA have pulled around 1500 of its 2200 in Turkey, stationed military and civilian forces. Is fitted to the base, according to Pentagon data with unmanned drones, a dozen fighter jets, a squadron of fighter planes for electronic warfare, as well as a plurality of supply machines.
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In the recent time there had been between Germany and Turkey, the dispute over the base at Incirlik. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said the Bundestag members to visit the German soldiers. The prohibition on retaliation was a measure for the Resolution of the Bundestag, the deputies referred to the crimes of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians as “genocide”.
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mak/SC (dpa, afp)