{"id":1495,"date":"2017-01-04T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2017-01-04T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:38:41","slug":"turkey-makes-veiled-threat-over-incirlik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/01\/04\/turkey-makes-veiled-threat-over-incirlik\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY MAKES VEILED THREAT OVER INCIRLIK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Military Times<\/p>\n

Turkey’s defense minister says a lack of support from Turkey’s NATO allies in its operation to clear the Islamic State group from a town in northern Syria is leading many to question the country’s permission for the U.S.-led coalition to use its air base.<\/p>\n

In the past few weeks, Turkey has complained that the coalition forces aren’t providing air cover to Turkish troops trying to capture the key ISIS-held town of al-Bab.<\/p>\n

Fikri Isik said Wednesday: “this is leading to serious disappointment in the Turkish public opinion.”<\/p>\n

“We are telling our allies … that this is leading to questions over Incirlik.” He was referring to the air base in southern Turkey that is home to coalition planes involved in the anti-ISIS campaign. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the New Year’s Istanbul nightclub attack that killed 39 people.<\/p>\n

Isik said Turkey hoped all coalition forces, and especially the United States, will start to provide the aerial support and other support that the (Turkish military offensive) needs.”<\/p>\n

Turkey sent troops and tanks into northern Syria in August to drive back ISIS militants from a border area and curb the territorial advances of Syrian Kurdish groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Military Times Turkey’s defense minister says a lack of support from Turkey’s NATO allies in its operation to clear the Islamic State group from a town in northern Syria is leading many to question the country’s permission for the U.S.-led coalition to use its air base. In the past few weeks, Turkey has… Continue reading TURKEY MAKES VEILED THREAT OVER INCIRLIK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1180,1181,9,66,15,90],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-al-bab","tag-incirlik","tag-isis","tag-nato","tag-syria","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}