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Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan's hostages.
To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance.
To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago.
“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,”
Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies wrote last week.__________________________________________________________________________