Turkey to open Incirlik base to Russia, Foreign Minister says

It was not clear whether they had been leaving or arriving at the airport.

“We can work with anyone in the fight against the Islamic State terrorists”.

However, Cavusoglu told reporters later that “I did not make such a comment” regarding any Russian use of the air base.

Turkey’s foreign minister said Monday (Jul 4) there are no plans to let Russian Federation use a Turkish air base to launch strikes against the Islamic State group despite a thaw between the two countries. “I did not make any comment referring to Russian planes coming to the Incirlik Air Base”.

The president imposed the travel ban to Turkey in November past year after a Russian Su-24 attack jet was shot down on the Syrian border by the Turkish Air Force. Why can’t we cooperate like this with Russian Federation?

US -led coalition forces, including Britain, Germany, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, now use Incirlik to strike Islamic State targets in Syria. Daesh is our common enemy, and we need to fight this enemy, ” he had added.

While Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, stated: “It looks like it is still premature to talk about this”.

Commenting on the allegations that Russian citizens could have been involved in performing the terror acts that struck Istanbul’s global airport last week, he said that this serves as yet more proof of how important the contact between the security services is, and also shows that the information they exchange must be reacted to in the proper way.

“Channels to exchange information with Turkey have not been working lately”.