Kurds get the shaft, U.S. gets an airbase, NATO gets used (updated) July 28, 2015 Fran Fawcett Peterson This push against the Kurds comes just days after Turkey agreed to let the U.S. use the Incirlik airbase to attack ISIS.  Without Incirlik, U.S. jets have a one-thousand-mile journey.  So were the Kurds the price of using Incirlik?