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The Grand Turk
Developing: Thousands Of Turkish Forces Surround U.S. Base At Incirlik Airbase
2016-07-31
[WeaselZippers] Erdogan has blamed Turkish Air Force members who had worked closest with NATO and U.S. as being involved in coup. They have also previously accused U.S. of involvement in the coup, even blaming the former commander of the base, who retired in March and couldn’t have been involved. But an Erdogan Islamist paper explicitly blamed him, stoking flames against NATO and the U.S.

’Protesters’, read Erdogan Islamists, were there Thursday, with pro-Erdogan Islamists yelling "death to the US" and called for the immediate closure of the Incirlik base.

Meanwhile Obama is on his birthday golf outing with the boys.

Update:
Reports of protesters in front of the U.S. Consulate in Adana. That is about 13 minutes away from Incirlik. Chanting "America, go away!"
Uh Oh.
Update at 12:45 a.m. ET: The only English language news reports I can find are from Australia and Russia Today, and they are reporting from their twitter feeds, as far as I can tell, just like this Weasel Zipper report. As you find new developments please add them to this thread, dear Reader, so as not to split the discussion.

Thanking you for the moderators,
trailing wife
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