Editing Turkish Armed Forces (section)

=== Air Force ===
{{Main|Turkish Air Force}}
[[File:07-1029 General Dynamics F-16D Turkish Air Force Konya 30.6.22.jpg|thumb|Turkish F-16D Block 50.]]
The [[Turkish Air Force]] is the [[aerial warfare]] service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. It is primarily responsible for the protection and sovereignty of Turkish [[airspace]] but also provides air-power to the other [[Military branch|service branches]]. Turkey is one of five NATO member states which are part of the [[nuclear sharing]] policy of the alliance, together with Belgium, [[Germany and weapons of mass destruction|Germany]], Italy, and the [[Netherlands and weapons of mass destruction|Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/yankee-bombs-go-home-foreign-minister-wants-us-nukes-out-of-germany-a-618550.html|title=Yankee Bombs Go Home: Foreign Minister Wants US Nukes out of Germany|date=10 April 2009|work=Der Spiegel|access-date=18 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828081635/https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/yankee-bombs-go-home-foreign-minister-wants-us-nukes-out-of-germany-a-618550.html|archive-date=28 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> A total of 90 [[B61 nuclear bomb]]s are hosted at the [[Incirlik Air Base]], 40 of which are allocated for use by the Turkish Air Force in case of a nuclear conflict, but their use requires the approval of [[NATO]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/euro/euro_pt1.pdf|title=NRDC: U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe • Hans M. Kristensen / Natural Resources Defense Council, 2005.|access-date=28 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211040934/http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/euro/euro_pt1.pdf|archive-date=11 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Air Force took part in the [[Operation Deliberate Force]] of 1995 and [[1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Operation Allied Force]] of 1999, and later participated in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]], employing two squadrons (one in the [[Ghedi]] fighter wing, and after 2000 one in the [[Aviano]] fighter wing.)<ref name=1980-Today>{{cite web|url=http://www.hvkk.tsk.tr/EN/IcerikDetay.aspx?ID=131|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111013955/http://www.hvkk.tsk.tr/EN/IcerikDetay.aspx?ID=131|url-status=dead|title=1980-today in the official website of the Turkish Air Force|archive-date=11 January 2012}}</ref> They returned to Turkey in 2001. In 2006, 4 Turkish F-16 fighter jets were deployed for NATO's [[Baltic Air Policing]] operation.