All U.S. anti-ISIS operations from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base have been halted


The United States embassy in Turkey reported and the Pentagon confirmed Saturday that "local authorities are denying movements on to and off of Incirlik Air Base," a large Turkish facility the U.S. uses as a key location for its anti-Islamic State air campaigns in Iraq and Syria. "The power there has also been cut," the embassy said. "Please avoid the air base until normal operations have been restored."
Turkish officials said the base would only be closed until they could ascertain that all equipment and planes of the Turkish air force are in pro-government hands following Friday night's failed military coup.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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