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  • Sultan’s Inn temporarily closes Nov. 12

    The Sultan's Inn dining facility will close 8:30 p.m. Nov. 12 and relocate to an alternate facility in time for midnight meal at 10:30 p.m. the same evening. Building 957, also known as the old Burger King food court behind the Army and Air Force Exchange Service car sales, will host Incirlik diners

  • Airmen chow down at USAFE’s award-winning dining facility

    Collaboration has helped the United States obtain victory in many wars. In the same manner Incirlik's Sultan's Inn dining facility won its own crusade between other United States Air Forces in Europe bases garnering the 2008 USAFE Food Service Excellence Award. Through hard work from its Turkish and

  • Incirlik runners go the distance in Istanbul

    Legend has it the messenger Pheidippides ran the first marathon in 490 B.C. from Marathon to Athens, Greece, to proclaim the Greek victory over the Persians before collapsing and dying. The spirit of Pheidippides' run lives on today in the marathon races held around the world every year. Several

  • Action line 81008 - Smoking at the IUS football field

    Complaint: I understand the Incirlik Unit School football field is an alcohol-free area. I would like to know if the same can be done for smoking? All entry ways on base have a 50-foot rule where smoking is prohibited, it would be nice if the same could be done for areas where children and

  • Action line 81016 - Energy waste

    Complaint: I am really concerned about all the lights I see left on in empty houses. In phase one of the renovations there is a bedroom light that has been on since June 07 since the occupants moved out, that is 17 months and I walked through there the other night and there are 6 more lights on that

  • 425th Airman earns Bronze Star for actions 'outside the wire'

    Tech Sgt. James Thompson, 425th Air Base Group Anti-terrorism Force Protection officer, was awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic efforts during a 12-month deployment to Balad, Iraq. Col. Richard Robel, 425 ABG commander, pinned the medal on Sergeant Thompson in a ceremony held Oct. 20 at Izmir's

  • Incirlik's blood bank supplies life-saving commodity

    Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles about the 39th Medical Group Laboratory. Calm and as still as his beat-less heart, a pale monster hides in the shadows watching a woman fumble for her keys as she heads to a dimly lit parking lot. The supernatural parasite appears out of thin

  • Reading Patch Club-Bring excitement to children's reading.

    The 39th Force Support Squadron Library caters to approximately 200 American and Turkish customers a day, providing them with a variety of services they might not expect at an installation with a population of only 5,000. The library's latest school-age program, the Reading Patch Club, began Oct. 1

  • Action line 81012 - Passorts

    Complaint: I would like to make it known the pain and struggles of getting a residency permit for a newborn baby born in Turkey. My baby was born in the beginning of August and I turned my paperwork in for the residency permit and the "No Fee" Passport Aug. 26. When I turned in the paperwork, the

  • Action line 81010 - Cleaning

    Complaint: We recently moved into our assigned house here at Incirlik and immediately noticed the concrete patio out back had what looked like 40 years of dirt and mold on it. In an effort to make our house more presentable, we attempted to borrow a power washer from the self-help store. We were