That's a key point right there. Reagan would have told Turkey: You want to be in NATO, you assist the Kurds. Period.
And if Turkey chooses to leave NATO, and throw us out of our airbase there, fine. I'm sure Israel has a base we could use instead.
@#$@#$ their airbase. You’re right.
How many thousands or maybe tens of thousands of ISIS fighters have come and gone freely and went on to kill 10s of thousands.
What good does an airbase do in enemy territory.
and they ARE the enemy.
Incirlik is a very important base in the Eastern Mediterranean, but that is not what makes Turkey crucial to NATO. Turkey controls the only outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, including the narrow Bosporus River and the Dardanelles Strait. These two strategic choke points comprise the Russian Navy's only access from its warm water Black Sea ports to open ocean. With Turkey on our side, the Russian fleet is essentially bottled up. But with Turkey in control of the current Muslim "migrant" invasion of Europe, the future of NATO appears to be in serious doubt.