Le député Devin Nunes (R-CA = Républicain Californie) , président du Comité Permanent sur l'Intelligence (le renseignement) a parlé avec le directeur exécutif de l'ANCA Aram Hamparian , notamment sur la réduction de la base US d'Incirlik (prononcer Indjirlik) , près de la ville d'Adana en Turquie .
Cette base US d'Incirlik a été construite sur des terrains spoliés aux Arméniens .La question est donc plus de la réparation et des compensations qui sont dûes aux familles des légitimes propriétaires de ces terrains d'Incirlik (Indjirlik) .
Il y a sur cette base plusieurs multinationales américaines de services divers, banques, restaurants etc… qui servent aux soldats américains basés à Incirlik (Indjirlik).
Incirlik (Indjirlik)
Incirlik Air Base (code AITA : UAB • code OACI : LTAG) est une base aérienne de Turquie située près de la petite ville d'İncirlik mais situé dans le district de Sarıçam, à douze kilomètres à l'est de la ville d'Adana, accueillant des éléments de l'United States Air Forces in Europe servant de support aux opérations de l'OTAN. La construction de cette base a commencé en 1951 à la suite d'un accord avec le gouvernement turc et elle fut déclarée opérationnelle en 1955. Elle possède une piste principale de 3 050 mètres et une autre de 2 740 mètres ainsi que 60 hangars durcis (HAS ou Hardened Aircraft Shelters (en)). L'unité prin… lire + sur wikipedia
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, discussed reducing U.S. reliance upon Turkey's Incirlik airbase during a meeting in the U.S. Capitol with Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
"I had a wide-ranging and productive discussion with Aram on important issues ranging from the need for full recognition of the Armenian Genocide to whether some functions of our Incirlik military base in Turkey should be transferred elsewhere," said Chairman Nunes, following the meeting.
"We welcome this opportunity to explore a broad array of regional priorities with our friend, Chairman Nunes, including near-term options to reduce America's reliance on Turkey's Incirlik airbase," said ANCA's Aram Hamparian. "As Armenians know all too well, Turkey has long leveraged this base to hold America hostage. Diversifying our forward positioning will lessen the leverage of Turkey's increasingly hostile Erdogan government, broadening America's range of action across a broad array of regional, security, and humanitarian priorities – among them, of course, full and formal U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide," concluded Hamparian.
Congressman Nunes has a long record in support of issues of special concern to Armenian Americans in California's Central Valley and across America, and has received an "A" rating from the ANCA over the past 4 terms in office. He has been an ardent advocate of U.S. reaffirmation of the Armenian Genocide, having cosponsored related legislation in every term since his election to office in 2002. He has consistently called on both Democrat and Republican U.S. presidents to properly commemorate the crime in their April 24th annual remembrance statements and visited the Dzidzernagapert Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia in 20
