NATO closes the air force base stationed over 60 for years in Turkish Izmir

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The NATO command decided to close the alliance’s air base in the Turkish province of Izmir from June 1. As noted in the message of the NATO Air Force Command, the base closing ceremony was held in the city of Buca, where it was stationed. The commander of the NATO Joint Command Command, Bruce Clingan, thanked the Turkish authorities for having warmly received NATO forces in Izmir since 1952.

Thus started the process of deactivation Command Joint Air Force NATO. As part of the overall process of converting the command structure of NATO in Izmir will be deployed Chief of Army Staff of the North Atlantic Alliance. Transformation of NATO's command structure provide deactivation of four military bases and 30-percent reduction in personnel. The main headquarters of NATO air forces will move to Germany, while the command of the combined naval forces of the alliance will be deployed in the UK.

It has already been closed built in 1999 year Air Force Base NATO in the Turkish city of Eskisehir. In general, Ankara does not approve NATO plans to reduce the bases and thus financing in Turkey.
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  1. Alexander
    +14
    23 May 2013 10: 22
    They feel that it smells like kyrosin.
    1. patline
      +14
      23 May 2013 11: 31
      It is possible that they want to drag Turkey into the war with Syria and Iran. To do this, supposedly reduce the presence.
      1. +1
        23 May 2013 12: 46
        Quote: patline
        It is possible that they want to drag Turkey into the war with Syria and Iran. To do this, supposedly reduce the presence.

        + As for Syria, it is not yet clear, although Turkey is already indirectly involved, but with Iran: "The Senate unanimously approved an Israeli strike on Iran" (http://www.mignews.com/news/politic/world/230513_72846_46871.html). There is a "serious" smell of kerosene.
    2. +3
      23 May 2013 12: 16
      Let them go, and away!
    3. +2
      23 May 2013 12: 56
      Quote: Alexander
      They feel that it smells like kyrosin.

      Not at all, unfortunately.
      Turks can independently show their teeth and, if necessary, bite. But the "new priests" of NATO, Poland, the Balts, the Romanians and "sympathizers" Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, will gladly accept. There, by the way, reconstruction and construction are in full swing.
      1. Yarbay
        0
        23 May 2013 21: 07
        Quote: Papakiko
        But the "new priests" of NATO, Poland, the Balts, the Romanians and "sympathizers" Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, will gladly accept. There, by the way, reconstruction and construction are in full swing.

        Azerbaijan has long entered the unions of the Non-Aligned Countries, so NATO is already in no way))))
    4. Hysnik-Tsuzoy
      +1
      23 May 2013 15: 34
      It is just that the Americans want, in economically unstable conditions, to shift part of their defense responsibility to stronger allies. The military industry has recently risen among the Turks, they are selling something abroad too, so the amers loaded them.
  2. HAM
    +4
    23 May 2013 10: 23
    At least something positive today.
    1. +3
      23 May 2013 11: 38
      Guys, unfortunately, "removing" or "placing" the NATO base in Turkey does not change the "arithmetic". Turkey itself is an "eternal NATO base"! It would be (!) Nice to hear about this from the former "Warsaw" countries (Poland, Czechoslo ..... etc.).
  3. +5
    23 May 2013 10: 25
    It is high time! Keep it up! Good riddance!

    The main thing is that like a hydra was not - they chopped off one head, 2 appeared

    Probably tossed closer to Russia and Iran
  4. Warrawar
    +10
    23 May 2013 10: 31
    Do not worry, the Americans have a lot of henchmen - a whole line is lined up, they will soon start to fight, for the right to serve first.
    1. +2
      23 May 2013 10: 46
      The point is not to serve, but in real financial gain. I looked at how boasting would line up if the United States didn’t pay to place a small egg. All policies built by the United States are built on grandmothers and wars that are interconnected.
      1. Warrawar
        +4
        23 May 2013 11: 00
        It is not that simple. It’s like in a joke: - And what will it be for us? Don’t worry, you won’t have anything for it!
        Here the situation is the same. Of course, the benefit can be considered purely in currency, but for most American henchmen, the benefit lies, for the most part, in the fact that the United States allows their regimes to exist relatively calmly.
        Most "regimes" are well aware that if they do not consistently swear allegiance to the "Euro-Atlantic" choice, then they will suffer the unenviable fate of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
  5. OlegYugan
    +7
    23 May 2013 10: 39
    Obviously, things are going to a mess, while local conflicts are taking place at the Turkish borders, which have real chances of becoming a full-scale war to withdraw the Allied forces, this is an open betrayal. I think Erdagan needs to steal a bench for supplying the ATS fighters.
    1. +2
      23 May 2013 12: 46
      Quote: OlegYugan
      it’s obviously a matter of confusion, while local conflicts are taking place near the Turkish borders that have real chances of becoming a full-scale war to withdraw the Allied forces, this is an open betrayal. I think Erdagan needs to steal a bench for supplying the ATS fighters.

      Hello Muammar, leaving Izmir does not change anything, but it may seem that the Nadovtsy do not exclude Syria’s strike at the base in case of Turkish aggression.
  6. 755962
    +1
    23 May 2013 10: 43
    Good riddance..
  7. 0
    23 May 2013 10: 48
    Come on come on ... shrink on like Shagreen skin!
  8. +1
    23 May 2013 10: 49
    An interesting solution, but in any case the right one) In Europe, too, must be closed, would not be forgotten.
  9. 0
    23 May 2013 10: 50
    ... we are only in favor, we can even help with the removal of equipment.
  10. +2
    23 May 2013 10: 55
    they would have taken with them terrorists from Syria in addition to a fairy tale
  11. +1
    23 May 2013 11: 05
    Sequestration briskly walks around the planet.
  12. edge731
    +1
    23 May 2013 11: 13
    Well - the beginning has been made, now the main thing is not to stop there, but to reduce and reduce ...
  13. +1
    23 May 2013 11: 18
    In general, Ankara does not approve of NATO plans to reduce bases and, accordingly, funding in Turkey.

    The Turks cannot understand in any way that the time has come to live on their own resources, and not on credit.
  14. No_more
    +4
    23 May 2013 11: 51
    Experience tells me that there are not many reasons for joy, especially when they suddenly give you so easily what you have long wanted to get painfully.
    Most likely, England and the United States (I mean them as the center of the "Western worldview") are changing their strategy of influencing the world. Now it is clear that the constant presence in the regions of our interests by military force, in the form to which we are accustomed, is too costly and the quantitative increase here does not bring an effect commensurate with the costs.
    That in the West something was stirring and beginning to change, it was already obvious. Reduction of aircraft carriers, unmanned aerial vehicles, development of missile defense and attempts to nullify the importance of nuclear deterrence forces. There is a search for more effective and profitable solutions.
    If we ignore the goals and the one who does this, then I really like this approach. First, a task is formed, then a technique for its implementation is developed, and then technical means for this technique. In our country, for example, they will first come up with some kind of tank or see the Mistral, which is good in its class, and then they think whether it is necessary or not. Even with the same armature, boomerang and kurgan, there is no unequivocal understanding at the most fundamental level. Everything is just somehow intuitively made decisions with an eye to what is now in the West.
    1. USNik
      0
      23 May 2013 13: 09
      Even with the same armature, boomerang and kurgan, there is no unequivocal understanding at the most fundamental level. Everything is just somehow intuitively made decisions with an eye to what is now in the West.
      * cognitive dissonance * How can one not understand what the West does not have at all? And stop kicking Mistral, it hurts him recourse , his role has long been determined - he will lead one of the fleets.
  15. 0
    23 May 2013 12: 23
    Because of these and similar bases in Turkey, the "Caribbean crisis" took place
    in October 1962. The deployment of medium-range Jupiter missiles in Turkey in 1961 by the United States, which could reach cities in the western part of the Soviet Union, including Moscow and the main industrial centers of the USSR. In response to these actions, in the immediate vicinity of the US coast, on the island of Cuba, the Soviet Union deployed personnel military units and units armed with both conventional and nuclear weapons, including ground-based ballistic and tactical missiles. Soviet naval submarines equipped with missiles and torpedoes with nuclear warheads were also stationed on alert off the coast of Cuba. The Soviet diplomatic fist forced the US to withdraw the Jupiter RSD from Turkey.
    And now the question of closing one of the bases in Izmir is being decided.
  16. Nikolko
    +1
    23 May 2013 12: 34
    I read, and straight soul rejoices!
  17. dc120mm
    0
    23 May 2013 12: 54
    Quote: Nikolko
    In general, Ankara does not approve of NATO plans to reduce bases and, accordingly, funding in Turkey.

    laughing certainly does not approve.
  18. +1
    23 May 2013 13: 21
    Starting March 1, the Pentagon will reduce the budget by $ 26 billion. More than 450 thousand people will fall under dismissal.
    US Army funding reduced by $ 15 billion. 300 thousand US military and civilian employees will be fired or will receive a reduced salary.
    The fleet costs will be reduced by $ 11 billion. The Obama administration will save $ 7 billion on shipbuilding. Another $ 4 billion will be saved by cutting costs. The American admirals were able to protect the sailors from dismissal, but the salary of US Navy civil servants could be reduced immediately by 1% from March 20.
    In the next ten years, the Pentagon plans to reduce its costs by $ 500 billion. In 2013, the total spending cut will be $ 46 billion, the newspaper notes.

    http://russian.rt.com/article/4591

    just a crisis gentlemen
    1. 0
      23 May 2013 21: 20
      100 In five years, the US military budget will be billions of dollars ??? I do not believe!
  19. +1
    23 May 2013 14: 27
    In general, Ankara does not approve of NATO plans to reduce bases and, accordingly, funding in Turkey.

    It became terrible ondim. laughing
    1. 0
      23 May 2013 14: 31
      can they make a dark cheat?
      Threat Ek your rating jumps again Isail military (tm) to blame?
      1. +1
        23 May 2013 14: 40
        Good day.
        The government of Turkey is bold while the NATO bases protect them, and as the smell of fried urgently called German soldiers with the Patriots.

        You know that I'm not interested in rating. hi
        1. +5
          23 May 2013 14: 44
          The government of Turkey is bold while NATO bases protect them

          so the whole story so with them)))
          You know that I'm not interested in rating.

          I would have removed it altogether, otherwise the marshals are like the DPRK.
          1. +5
            23 May 2013 14: 48
            Quote: leon-iv
            I would have removed it altogether, otherwise marshals like the DPRK

            And then the pioneers, how will they distinguish each other and measure letters?
            1. +3
              23 May 2013 14: 54
              And then the pioneers, how will they distinguish each other and measure letters?

              oh these internet))))
  20. Petrospek
    +1
    23 May 2013 14: 43
    I wonder what the real reason? Budget cuts or cleaned away from the hot region? All the same, the second one is being conducted to me.
  21. Cat
    0
    23 May 2013 14: 47
    in Izmir, the General Headquarters of the Ground Forces of the North Atlantic Alliance will be deployed.


    Real, damn it, North Atlantic. The headquarters of the Air Force in Germany, the Navy in England, and the Air Force in Turkey. Closer to the Middle East?

    In general, there would be more such "ceremonies"!
  22. Vtel
    0
    23 May 2013 15: 08
    As part of the overall process of transforming the NATO command structure in Izmir, the General Headquarters of the Allied Ground Forces will be deployed.

    Apparently, the percentage of Yankees confidence in the Turks is falling, and therefore they close the Air Force bases, after all, the plane is expensive and losing them is expensive - they fall within the range of Iranian missiles, but it looks like they will increase the ground component to keep the Turks in fear, and Iran they’re like a splinter in the priest, apparently they are not getting urine. I think during the Olympics in Sochi will be born.
  23. +2
    23 May 2013 15: 08
    I read the comments ...
    I agree with those who believe THIS is a strategy ... A "war" is soon planned on the territory of Turkey, how the "strategists" do not yet know how it will develop)) Although, for the purpose of "GENERAL" destabilization, they need it. (Say goodbye to the state. vom Israel)) and ignite the Holy City of Constantinople)))

    Here is a plan.
    By the way, Russia is drawn in)) it’s not without reason that Vanga predicted.))) Well, provocation will start (I proceed from the general assumptions (September 11, Explosions of houses on kashirka, Nord-Ost, Boston))) I put them in one row for nothing .. .
    The performances of the same field ... if they were "trial balls", then something worse will happen in Turkey ...
    by the way for reference (in Turkey, NATO stores nuclear charges ...
    Turks will not be envied))) By the way, and "tourists" too (next summer we are planning Thailand)))))
  24. +3
    23 May 2013 16: 38
    A fair wind in a hunchbacked back))) Turkey is definitely drained otherwise they would not have left!
  25. +1
    23 May 2013 18: 04
    We must send Serdyukov to reduce NATO. If he can, forgive his sins.
  26. Alikovo
    0
    23 May 2013 19: 39
    Now Turkey will take on its own brainchild.
  27. SHARK
    0
    23 May 2013 21: 55
    Bruce Klingan thanked the Turkish authorities for warmly accepting NATO forces in Izmir since 1952. (set up ... well, since 1952), good luck laughing
  28. pinecone
    0
    23 May 2013 21: 56
    The Izmir base of the NATO Air Force was created to control the Aegean at the exit of the Dardanelles. The need for it has disappeared due to the strengthening of the defensive capabilities of Turkey. Of strategic importance is Incirlik airbase, which is shared by the US and Turkish Air Force. Located east of the city of Adana, in close proximity to the Syrian border.
    1. Ruslan_F38
      0
      24 May 2013 09: 59
      "in close proximity to the Syrian border" appears to be a good target for Syrian-Russian missiles.
  29. luka095
    0
    23 May 2013 22: 41
    If the Main Headquarters of the Ground Forces is in Izmir, this does not mean that the Turkish soldiers will be the main "cannon" fodder on this flank of NATO? Americans and Europeans are simply putting Turkey on the front lines.
  30. Boot under the carpet
    0
    24 May 2013 08: 09
    Yes, for good reason it is! And for Turkey, of course, this is unprofitable. I will not be surprised if possible bloodshed in Syria will be carried out by this puppet state. I remember how NATO and US aircraft took off in a hurry from Georgia when the 58th army swept away the genetics on its way to forcing peace in the region.

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