Interestingly the following article suggests that while there are US nuclear weapons stored in Turkey the Turkish air force hasn't had any capabilities to deliver these weapons for two decades and the US doesn't have any nuclear capable aircraft based there either (although obviously easy to fly them in):
I cant be the only person who wonders if the US quietly moved the 50 remaining bombs somewhere else a long time ago - having a bunch of 60's era nukes in a basement on the boarder with syria seems a) no deterant at all to anyone, b) a massive liability.
My read is they are not there, and havent been there a while.
When two NATO allies, Greece and Turkey, were on the cusp of war in 1974, the United States secretly removed all of NATO’s nuclear weapons from Greece and cut the arming wires of every nuclear weapon stored in Turkey, rendering them inoperable.
“It is U.S. policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons at any general or specific location,” said Air Force Lt. Col. Uriah Orland, a Pentagon spokesman. “The U.S. does not discuss the movement of nuclear weapons, the capability to store weapons at U.S. or foreign locations or planning for any of these activities.”
Indeed, might be the bomb casings are there and the pits (or other vital components) long since removed and they are there for purely political reasons.
