Turkey to allow Russian bombers to use Incirlik airbase

[CougarKing]

Erdogan and Putin are clearly in bed together...wouldn't this further complicate Ankara's relationship with NATO?

Stripes.com

Turkey open to Russian planes at US Incirlik hub
By John Vandiver
Stars and Stripes
Published: August 23, 2016

STUTTGART, Germany — Could U.S. warplanes soon be sharing the runway at Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base with Russian bombers?

That’s up to Moscow, according to a top Turkish official, whose comments on possibly opening the strategic Turkish facility to Russian personnel comes ahead of a damage control visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

When asked on Saturday whether Russia could use Incirlik for airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim answered in the affirmative. “If necessary, the Incirlik base can be used (by the Russians),” Yildirim told reporters.

(...SNIPPED)

 

[MilEME09]

Either its an opening to defuse tensions with moscow, or its an opening for putin to divide NATO, probably the later.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Why couldn't it be both?

 

[Bird_Gunner45]

Either its an opening to defuse tensions with moscow, or its an opening for putin to divide NATO, probably the later.

Or Turkey could just be using it's national sovereignty to allow a nation that it isn't at war with to use it's airfields.