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.

The gunmen were reportedly protesting the last week's operations, which targeted PKK positions in the southeastern town of Silvan, Diyarbakır. Reports said that the attack took place on a main boulevard in the city's Seyhan district. No casualties were reported.

Media outlets reported the public bus entered the boulevard just after the PKK closed it to traffic while chanting slogans denouncing Sunday's anti-terror raids.

Video footage, which emerged in the aftermath of the attack, showed passengers barely escaping death. In the video, the driver was seen opening the doors of the bus to help passengers flee when gunmen hurled a petrol bomb at the bus, which caught fire.

The frames, recorded by a cab camera in the bus, showed masked PKK members ordering the driver to stop the bus after opening fire. When PKK supporters forced passengers to leave the bus at gunpoint, a woman was shouting in panic: “They have guns, they are firing."

A PKK gunman punched the camera inside the bus.

In the video footage, a woman was seen trapped on a seat before escaping. The bus was engulfed in flames when the PKK hurled fire bombs at the vehicle. Acting on a tip from citizens, police rushed to the scene and put out the flames using a water cannon.

When the police forces arrived on the scene, the PKK members fled into the backstreets.

As many as 450 officers from the anti-smuggling division of the Adana police department led the raids, which were held simultaneously in the provinces of Adana, İzmir and Diyarbakır. Police helicopters and special operations forces were also involved in the anti-drug raids.

Before launching the coordinated operation, police had had several suspects under surveillance for three months.

Equipped with long-barreled weapons, officers using special equipment forced entry into the properties. They seized 90 kilogram of cannabis, as well as small amounts of heroin and cocaine.

Police found a Kalashnikov rifle in a raid on a suspected location in Diyarbakır, and discovered a gun while searching a flat in Adana. Security has been stepped up to prevent attacks on the police during the operation.

Ahead of the G-20 summit on November 15-16 in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, Turkey has increased security measures, conducting operations against terror suspects in several cities.

Counter-terror units of the Adana Police Department launched an operation on a house in the Bahçeşehir neighborhood of Seyhan district after getting a tipoff that some ISIL recruits were boarding there.

The police units detained a total of 38 foreign nationals including 14 Azerbaijanis, seven Indonesians, five Iraqis and five Kirghiz, two Tajiks, three Iranians and two Afghans.

Ten of the detainees were women and 15 were children, the police said.

All of the suspects are believed to have entered Turkey to cross the Turkish border and join ISIL, according to security sources.

The suspects will be transferred to the immigration authorities, after which they will likely be deported.

Meanwhile, two Turkish citizens were also arrested for aiding and abetting the suspected terrorists.

The arrival of the aircraft was described as the largest deployment of US forces to İncirlik since Turkey granted permission for the US-led coalition forces to launch airstrikes against ISIL positions.

In early August, the US deployed six F-16 fighter jets, a C-5 transport plane, a KC-135 refueling aircraft and 300 personnel to the base.

The A -10 Thunderbolt II is an American twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft designed solely for close air support, including attacking tanks, armored vehicles and other ground targets. The tank destroyers were first used in combat during the first Gulf War in 1991. In that conflict, they were credited with destroying more than 900 Iraqi tanks, 2,000 other military vehicles and 1,200 artillery pieces.

The latest aircraft deployment came a week after a double suicide bombing in Ankara, the Turkish capital, in which more than 100 civilians were killed and over 200 injured in the deadliest attack in the history of the Turkish Republic.

Investigations into all arrested individuals are ongoing.

According to a report of the Turkish Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (TUBIM), 98,933 drug-related cases occurred throughout Turkey and 148,121 suspects were arrested in relation to these cases. When the crime-related distribution of all 148,121 suspects arrested in Turkey in 2013 is analyzed, 112,505 suspects were arrested for the purchase/acceptance/possession of drugs with the intent to use, 31,183 suspects for the production and trade of drugs, five suspects for facilitating the use of drugs.

The attack came a day after Turkey was shaken by the deadliest bomb attack in its history, which claimed the lives of 97 civilians in capital Ankara on Saturday.

The PKK terrorist reportedly forced the wedding owner to cut the entertainment because of the attacks that took place in Ankara.

“Don't make a wedding today, stop this wedding," the terrorist told owners of the ceremony.

But the owner insisted to continue saying, “We have been preparing for this event for months and decided to have the ceremony today, we can't postpone it."

The angry militants opened random fire on civilians attending the wedding. Women and children dropped to the floor to avoid being hit and people used their bodies as shields to protect the children present. The attack left a keyboard player dead and two others injured.

Suspects are accused of opening fire on police officers during the illegal protests, held in the city's Seyhan district. Police swooped down on 20 addressed in the operation, backed by special operation forces.

A number of hunting rifles, outlawed documents and some amount of smuggled cigarettes were seized when they searched the suspects' properties.

The operation is reportedly underway.

According to local security forces, a group of terrorists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, attacked Pozanti District Police Department with weapons, killing officers Isa Ipek and Serdar Kazar.

As the police responded the attack, two terrorists were also killed in the clash.

Adana Governor Mustafa Büyük said that security forces launched a wide-scale operation in the region to catch those helping the assailant terrorists.

Meanwhile, Pozanti District Governor Bilal Özkan and Adana Provincial Police Chief Cengiz Zeybek also inspected the crime scene.

Bomb squads defused the grenades on the terrorists killed in the police office.

Security forces have taken strict security measures around the attacked police department.

Turkey's military and police have been hit by a number of attacks over the past week following the Islamic States of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL-linked suicide bombing in southern border Şanlıurfa province that killed 32 people on July 20.

Since then, Turkish security forces have arrested hundreds of people with suspected links to ISIL, the PKK, and leftist groups, detaining over 1,300 people across the country, according to a statement on Wednesday from the Prime Minister's Office.

Turkey has also launched airstrikes against ISIL and PKK positions in Syria and Iraq.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S., the EU and Turkey.

It was reported that the minibus collided with a truck on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep highway, while returning from Osmaniye to Mardin , the victims' relatives said that they were returning from a wedding.

The wounded people were carried to the nearby hospitals for treatment.

Anti-smuggling forces raided on 28 properties simultaneously in central district of Yüreğir and its remote areas. Public order and riot squads were also involved in the operation, supported by armored vehicles and a police helicopter.

Police searched performed security checks on the persons, found inside the hideout, while sniffer dogs were tracking down illegal drugs on the roofs, in bath and toilets.

A certain amount of drug was confiscated during the operations.

Officers stormed scores of previously-plotted homes in the neighborhoods of Hurriyet and Barbaros in the city’s Seyhan district during the simultaneous raids, which were backed by police helicopters.

The operation targeted the PKK militants, who used stones, petrol bombs, skyrockets and guns to attack security forces during Thursday's illegal protests, which were held in the central province.  

The number of riot police was increased at the road entrances for security to prevent the suspects from escaping. The special operation force joined the raid in case the armed suspects responded with gunfire.

Officers stormed on scores of previously-plotted homes in the neighbourhood of Hurriyet and Barbaros in the city’s Seyhan district during the simultaneous raids,

backed by the police helicopters. 

The operation targetted the PKK militants, who used stone, petrol bomb, skyrocket and gun to attack on security forces during the Thursday's illegal protests, which were held in the central province. 

Riot police presence was increased at the entry of roads for security to prevent the suspects from escaping.

Special operation force joint the raid for an imminent response with arms by the suspects.

Police searched the properties and performed security checks on the persons found inside the hideout. Six people were detained on suspicion of being involved in several crimes.

Public order and riot squads were also involved in the operation, which was supported by two police helicopters. 

Addresses in the districts of Yüreğir and Çamlıbel were among those raided.  Officers were deployed on the street corners and did not allow any driver or pedestrian to enter the area during the operation.

The police confiscated two roof cameras covering the area from different angles on one property that they stormed.

The action is the latest in a series of security operations, each of which at least 1,000 officers from the Adana police headquarters attended in one month.