US Established Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to 'Redraw Middle East' Borders
US Established Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to 'Redraw Middle East' Borders
Turkish politicians
and activists based in the Adana province, home to the Incirlik air
base, told Sputnik that they want Ankara to close the facility or at
least ban the US and other NATO countries from using it because
Washington has utilized it to carry out its destabilizing strategy in
the Middle East.
Hayri
Akgun, chairman of the Freedom and Solidarity Party's (ÖDP) regional
branch, maintained that Incirlik "is a major stumbling block on
[Turkey's] way to independence" since the United States has used it
to carry out its plans in the region. "The main goal of creating the
base was to redraw the entire [map of] the Middle East," he added.
