{"id":76550,"date":"2019-12-18T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76550"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:49:32","slug":"us-wants-explanation-for-turkey-threat-to-close-two-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-wants-explanation-for-turkey-threat-to-close-two-bases\/","title":{"rendered":"US wants explanation for Turkey threat to close two bases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has said, he wants an explanation from Ankara over threats to close two strategic military bases used by the United States in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday had threatened to close the Incirlik and Kurecik bases while speaking to a pro-government television channel. The two bases sit on Turkey&#8217;s southwest coast, near the border with Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US air force uses the air base at Incirlik for raids on positions held by the Islamic State group in Syria. The Kurecik base houses a major NATO radar station.Esper told he would need to speak to his counterpart, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, to understand what they really mean. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has said, he wants an explanation from Ankara over threats to close two strategic military bases used by the United States in Turkey. Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday had threatened to close the Incirlik and Kurecik bases while speaking to a pro-government television channel. The two bases sit [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76552,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76550\/revisions\/76552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}