Incirlik (
Injurlik or
"The Alley") is a town, of ~15,000, in south-eastern
Turkey's
Adana Province. This is also the name of a nearby
USAF airbase from which
American aircraft patrol
Iraq's northern
No-Fly Zone.
The Incirlik Airbase, a
regional storage center[?] in
NATO's
Southern Region[?], has a USAF staff of ~4,000, with several hundred
British and Turkish personnel attached
(-late 2002) (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/incirlik.htm). The primary unit stationed here is the
39th Air & Space Expeditionary Wing[?]. The base is located 12
km east of
Adana and 56 km from the
Mediterranean Sea (
37°00'N 35°26'E). There are ~36
fighter jets and assorted support/surveillance
planes based here. The airbase has a 3,050
m runway, a 2,740 m runway, and 57 hardened aircraft shelters.