Turkey weighs booting US from Incirlik air base

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Now that Washington and Ankara are at odds over military operations in northern Syria, Turkey is questioning why it continues to allow the U.S. to use its strategically important Incirlik air base in the fight against the Islamic State.

The veiled threat comes as Turkish military forces have been supporting Syrian rebels in the north to liberate the Syrian town of al-Bab from Islamic State control.

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