October 13, 2014

Coalition jets will start using Turkey's Incirlik airbase against ISIS


Get in the armed reapers at Incirlik airbase






As Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria’s border town of Kobani, US defence officials said that Turkey will let US and coalition forces use its bases, including a key installation within 100 miles of the Syrian border, for operations against Islamic State (Isis) militants in Syria and Iraq.On Sunday, officials confirmed that Turkey agreed to let US and coalition fighter aircraft launch operations against Isis militants in Iraq and Syria from Turkish bases, including Incirlik air base in the south. US defence secretary Chuck Hagel, who has been travelling in South America, has said the US wanted access to the Turkish bases.

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