Turkey Holding 50 US Nuclear Bombs “Hostage”: Official

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BasNews 15/10/2019 – 19:10 – ERBIL – A US official has revealed that Turkey is holding a total of 50 US nuclear bombs “hostage” at an air base near the border with Syria, adding that Washington has begun efforts to repatriate them.

After five days of a Turkish offensive against the Kurdish forces in northeast of Syria, US President Donald Trump announced sanctions on Ankara, also demanding that the NATO ally should put an end to its military campaign in Syria.

According to The New York Times, US State and Energy Departments are now reviewing plans to evacuate the bombs out of Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base.

A senior official pointed out that the nukes were “essentially Erdogan’s hostages” and to evacuate them would mark the “de-facto end of the Turkish-American alliance”, the report added.

The weapons are believed to be B61 nuclear gravity bombs belonging to the Cold War-era, which require aircrafts to carry and deploy them, something that Turkey is currently incapable of.

However, Jeffrey Lewis, of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told The Guardian that “the US doesn’t need Turkey’s agreement to remove the weapons. The US can do it unilaterally, and I think the US should do it unilaterally and do it immediately.”