İncirlik
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İncirlik (pronounced Injurlik, literally meaning "place of fig orchard") is a town with 15,000 population, in south-eastern Turkey's Adana Province - located approximately 10 km from the city of Adana (population 1.5 million).
This is also the name of a nearby NATO's Southern Region Incirlik Air Base from which American aircraft patrolled Iraq's northern No-Fly Zone between the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The Incirlik Air Base of the United States Air Force is located within Incirlik.
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