U.S. Nukes at Turkey's Incirlik Base Moved to Romania?

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 30 April 2019)


         Where's Dr. Strangeloveoğlu when we need him?!

The U.S. nuclear weapons said to be stored at Incirlik Air Base in
Adana have come on the agenda again with a claim that they have
been moved to Romania. 

In the last months of 2016, coalition countries involved in the Syrian
operation, comprised of some 40 nations including the USA, UK,
France, Holland, Saudi Arabia, İsrail, Egypt and Qatar, left Incirlik.
As of 29 March 2016, the families of American service personnel
at Incirlik were evacuated, reducing the U.S. presence at Incirlik from
5,000 to the current 1,400. 

Vladimir Yevseyev, the Deputy Director of the Moscow-based
CIS Institute, who is also the chief of the institute's European
Integration and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development
section, said that because of Turkey's acquisition of the Russian
S-400 air defense system the U.S. view toward Turkey has changed.
Yevseyev claimed that based on intelligence he has, the nuclear
warheads at Incirlik were moved to Romania some time ago.

However, retired Turkish AF pilot Major General Beyazıt Karataş
asserted that 50 U.S. nuclear warheads are still at Incirlik and that
the U.S. has no intention of moving them anywhere else.  Karataş
noted that "what the U.S. is trying to do is prevent Turkey from
getting the S-400s, keep Turkey from buying the F-35 and continue
to keep the nuclear bombs at Incirlik.  Launching the bombs from
Romania would add at least 1-1.5 hours to a related operation and
America will not accept such a situation."


                       Incirlik (A), Romania, upper left.