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The following is a partial list of NATO military bases in Turkey, past and present.[1]
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| Installation | ICAO
|
Province | Command | Wing | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Balıkesir Air Base
|
LTBF | Balıkesir | Former 1st TAF | 9th MJBC | base of the 6th Air Wing of the 1st Air Force Command of the Turkish Air Force. |
Bandırma Air Base
|
LTBG | Balıkesir | Former 1st TAF | 6th MJBC | base of the 6th Air Wing of the 1st Air Force Command of the Turkish Air Force. |
| Pirinclik Diyarbakır Air Base
|
LTCC | Diyarbakır | Former 2nd TAF HQ | 8th MJBC | once NATO's frontier post for monitoring the Soviet Union and the Middle East, but it was closed on September 30, 1997. |
Erhaç Air Base
|
LTAT | Malatya | Former
2nd TAF |
7th MJBC | Pending delivery and formation of F-35A combat squadrons,
main operating airbase close to the Syrian border. |
Erkilet Air Base
|
LTAU | Kayseri | TAF Logistics | 12th TMBC | Main tactical transport airbase, operating the fleet of C-130s, C-160s and newly arriving A400Ms. |
| Eskişehir Air Base | LTBI | Eskişehir | Former 1st TAF HQ | 1st MJBC | Multirole F-16 combat squadron and a flight test squadron in Northwestern Turkey, roughly halfway between Istanbul and Ankara. HQ of the Combat Air Force and Missile Air Defence Command. |
| Etimesgut Air Base | LTAD | Ankara | TAF Logistics HQ | 11th TMBC | Main operating and maintenance base of the Turkish fleet of CN.235, including cargo, ELINT/ EW and MedEvac variants. Also based here are the VIP airplanes serving the government and the aviation unit of the Turkish State Intelligence Agency (MIT). |
| Gaziemir Air Base | LTBK | Izmir
|
TAF Training HQ | part of
2nd MJBFTCC |
Izmir - Adnan Menderez IAP. HQ of the Air Training Command. |
İncirlik Air Base
|
LTAG | Adana | TAF Logistics | 10th TBC | KC-135 air refueling tankers airbase. |
Konya Air Base
|
LTAN | Konya | TAF Training | 3rd MJBC | Main operational training airbase, AEW assets,
site of the major exercises of the Turkish Air Force - Anatolian Eagle. |
Merzifon Air Base
|
LTAP | Amasya | Former 2nd TAF | 5th MJBC | Multirole F-16 combat squadrons in Northern Turkey. |
10th Air Refueling Wing İncirlik AFB
15th Missile Wing Alemdağ AFB
