US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is paying a morale visit on Tuesday to the US troops at Turkey's Incirlik airbase near the Syrian border.
Secretary of Defense Carter is expected to meet the pilots and go up to the rostrum at around noon for a press briefing. The airbase in Turkey's southeastern province of Adan, which has become an important hub of anti-Daesh international coalition led by the US.
Carter's visit follows some recent high-level foreign officials' visit to the base as top air force officials from Turkey, US, Spain and Qatar met there yesterday to discuss air and ground security in the region.
Gen. Paul J. Selva, 10th Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently visited the airbase, where the 39th Tactical Group of the United States Air Force (USAF) is based, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve against Daesh targets both in Iraq and Syria.
Military deployment to the base from the member countries of the anti-Daesh coalition has escalated after the deadly Paris attacks last month.
Germany was the latest country to send two Tornado reconnaissance jets as well as a military transport aircraft to the base last week. The Merkel government also announced that it would send four more Tornado surveillance planes to Incirlik airbase soon.
