Saturday, July 30, 2016

Nuclear Blackmail In Turkey ???

This reports is ten days old, and I am not certain how the issue is being resolved:

July 20, 2016

Vero Beach, FL - (TRUNEWS) For a fifth consecutive day, Turkey has intentionally withheld power and vital supplies from the U.S.-NATO joint installation Incirlik Air Base.

According to our sources, verified by TRUNEWS as parents and spouses of U.S. airmen currently stationed at Incirlik Air Base, no supplies have been flown or driven into the installation since Saturday, food and water are being strictly rationed, and only one week of fuel reserves remain to power their electric generators.

A wife of a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) trapped in Incirlik Air Base told TRUNEWS correspondent Edward Szall that her husband ate only one meal Saturday at the bases dining facilities, and has since been sustaining himself on junk food and snacks.

“He told me that everyone is getting irritable, lots of amenities being taken away it’s starting to get to people,” the spouse said Tuesday night.

A mother of an airmen sequestered inside Incirlik told TRUNEWS that her son informed her early Wednesday that Turkish police are still blockading the base entrance, and that the electric generators - powering flight operations and the underground bunkers housing B-61 nuclear bombs - would remain on until fuel rations were extinguished. Her son also claimed that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter vetoed a plan to transfer all personnel and equipment from the base after the military coup began Friday night, citing that the move was “too expensive”.

You can read the rest @
http://www.trunews.com/article/Is-Incirlik-Air-Base-being-held-hostage-by-Turkey

I think Ash-hole Carter is an idiot. Turkey no doubt thinks they can blackmail us into turning over Fethullah Gülen.

No US President should allow something like this to happen.

4 comments:

  1. Apparently the blockade is continuing. See the following link:

    http://en.ria.ru/middleeast/20160731/1043797161/incirlik-turkey-erdogan-nato-nukes.html

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  2. Moving towards a Russia, Turkey, Syria coalition that will give the next US President nightmares.

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  3. And perhaps even a radioactive cloud over our heads.

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  4. Germany reports that the siege continues (see link below). Why is Turkey so afraid of a second coup? And why blame it on the US?

    http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2016/08/01/tuerkei-riegelt-us-luftwaffenbasis-erneut-ab/ [translation required]

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