{"id":81115,"date":"2018-08-10T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81115"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:48:07","slug":"turkish-lawyers-want-to-raid-incirlik-air-base-and-arrest-u-s-air-force-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81115","title":{"rendered":"Turkish lawyers want to raid Incirlik Air Base and arrest U.S. Air Force officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A-10s\"<\/p>\n

The Air Force Times<\/a> reports a group of Turkish pro-government lawyers have filed charges against U.S. Air Force officers associated with Incirlik Air Base, based on allegations that they are connected to a movement that attempted a coup d’\u00e9tat against Turkey\u2019s government in July 2016.<\/p>\n

The lawyers seek a temporary halt to all flights leaving Incirlik Air Base \u2014 an important staging point for combat operations against the Islamic State group \u2014 and access to the base via a search warrant, according to court documents unearthed by the Stockholm Center for Freedom, a group of exiled Turkish journalists. <\/p>\n

Depicted in the graphic above are three reasons why this is a very bad idea.<\/p>\n

The papers were filed at the chief public prosecutor\u2019s office in Adana, where Incirlik is located. The lawyers who submitted the request are from the Association for Social Justice and Aid, which the exiled Turkish journalists described as a non-governmental organization fronting for senior Turkish officials.<\/p>\n

The lawyers also asked in their petition for the \u201carrest of the commanders of the U.S. Air Force who are the superiors of the soldiers based at ?ncirlik and took a role in the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016,\u201d according to the documents.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials did not provide comment on what, if any, actions were planned to deal with the charges, but did deny that the U.S. government was involved in the attempted coup.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny reports that U.S. government or military personnel had any previous knowledge or involvement in a Turkey coup attempt are baseless and completely false,\u201d Mark Mackowiak, a U.S. European Command spokesman, told Air Force Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe value the strong, mil-to-mil relationship and partnerships we have with our Turkish counterparts and continue to carry out our important mission at Incirlik,” he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The last statement is code for, if these bastards didn\u2019t live at an extremely important choke point, we wouldn\u2019t give them the time of day. <\/p>\n

In 1992\u2019s Sea Sparrow Incident, the Turks demanded the executions of American sailors who mistakenly fired two missiles at TCG Muavenet DM-357 (previously USS Gwin) during a NATO exercise. The incident was the result of both human and systemic failures. The sailors who actually fired the missiles were not punished, but the ship’s commanding officer, four other officers and three enlisted men received admiral’s non-judicial punishment, an action which effectively ended their US Navy careers. No one was executed, and the Turks settled for blood money, instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Air Force Times reports a group of Turkish pro-government lawyers have filed charges against U.S. … Turkish lawyers want to raid Incirlik Air Base and arrest U.S. Air Force officers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nato","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}