Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to close down down two U.S. military base in Turkey if indorsement against the country are approved by President Donald Trump . One of the U.S. bases , known as Incirlik , is believe to house about 50 nuclear dud .
“ If necessary we ’ll shut Incirlik and also Kurecik , ” Erdogan said during a TV interview on Sunday , allot to an English translationby DW . “ If the scourge of sanctions is enforce against us , we ’ll respond to them in the framework of reciprocity . ”
Erdogan also said he may fight for a new resolution in Turkey acknowledging genocide against autochthonic the great unwashed in the United States during previous centuries . The human activity would be retaliation against a U.S. Senate resolution that passed onThursdayrecognizing the Armenian Genocide of the 1910s and XX . Turkey denies pull the Armenian Genocide , which killed roughly 1.5 million people .
Lt. Col. Ben Rudolphi takes off from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in an A-10 Thunderbolt II in this file photo from July 11, 2017Photo: (DVIDS)
The existence of U.S. atomic bomb in Turkey has never been officially acknowledged by the Pentagon , but it ’s widely accepted that there are 50 B-61 somberness nuclear bombs at Incirlik Air Base . The B-61 is a relatively low - yield bomb that ’s debate a tactical weapon system and present by aircraft rather than through a projectile launching . The U.S. military theoretically has sole control of the bombs , but no surety system is foolproof , especially on foreign land , which is why there ’s renewed focus on U.S. atomic artillery house in Turkey flop now .
The possible U.S. sanctions against Turkey are primarily retaliation for the country ’s purchase of a Russian S-400 projectile system rather than an American arm system . As a NATO friend , it was expected that Turkey would not purchase a system from Russia , the elementary geopolitical opposition of the NATO alliance , and many traditional conservatives in the U.S. are not happy .
The warrant against Turkey were passed by a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday but have n’t been taken up by the entire Senate and it ’s still unclear if President Trump would signalize the bill if it reached his desk . The authorization billhook , formally anticipate the “ Promoting American National Security and Preventing the Resurgence of ISIS Act of 2019 , ” is opposed by some Trump loyalists like Kentucky Senator Rand Paul .
Back in October , theNew York Timesreported that storage of the nuclear bombs in Turkey was already under review by the Pentagon , but it ’s not clear whether the turkey have been make a motion yet to another location . U.S.-Turkey relations have been on the rocks recently ever since the U.S. prexy send conflicting messages to President Erdogan over the authoritarian drawing card ’s incursion into Syria to pass over out the Kurds .
President Trump seemed to give a green twinkle for the ethnic cleaning in Northern Syria , but also skirt in public by saying that the Kurds would get protection if they just moved to anarea with oil . President Trump repeatedly said that the U.S. would be keeping the oil that it verify in Syria ’s north , a blatant warfare crime under international law of nature .
atomic weapons aside the Incirlik Air Base has served other strategic use for the U.S. military . The base is roughly 100 miles from the Syrian delimitation and has been an important establish point for drone missions against ISIS sinceat least 2011 . Kurecik Radar Station , in easterly Turkey , is weigh an important early - warning station for NATO forces that was first opened in 2012 .
But President Trump was already harming America ’s military involvement in the area long before Erdogan made his most late threat to conclude the two U.S. bases . Trump diverted military monetary fund from dozens of labor around the world in an endeavor to fund his U.S.-Mexico border wall , with one of the projects being $ 14.5 million that wassupposed to be allocatedto Kurecik specifically .
President Trump ’s ties to Turkey make him tremendously susceptible to pressure from Ankara , specially since the President of the United States has a financial stake in the region , something that mainstream news program mercantile establishment in the U.S. have seldom pointed out .
As just one example , President Trump can be hear on video from April 2012 chess opening upTrump Towers in Istanbul , Turkey .
“ you may go to the United States , and so many citizenry listen about the United States , and all the keen things … we have nothing as beautiful as this . This is as proficient as it gets , ” Trump state the crowdin Turkey .
“ I also want to give thanks the Prime Minister because I know he was here yesterday for the ribbon thinning [ … ] The Prime Minister is very highly respected throughout the world and in the United States . He ’s a honest human being and he ’s representing you very well , ” Trump say , referring to Erdogan , who was at the clip Prime Minister .
Needless to say , it seems highly unlikely that Trump would appropriate a nib sanctioning Turkey to get beyond his desk without a veto , given his personal job pursuit . But who knows ? Trump could produce up and do something in America ’s pastime for once . unusual things have happen .
On 2nd cerebration , Ivanka Trump ( who currently mould in the White House for some reason ) probably gave us a cue back in 2012 thatother priorities will advance out . As Ivanka say at the time , “ we look forward to this being the first of many project we do here in Turkey . ”
" And we look forward to this being the first of many projects we do here in Turkey . " – Ivanka Trump at the porta of Trump Towers in Istanbul in 2012pic.twitter.com/iImy2ZHF1v
— Matt Novak ( @paleofuture)October 9 , 2019
So much for that idea .
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