[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5182 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5182

 To prohibit the Department of Defense from deploying strategic assets 
            of the United States in the Republic of Turkey.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2019

    Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Bilirakis, Ms. Speier, and Mr. Soto) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Department of Defense from deploying strategic assets 
            of the United States in the Republic of Turkey.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) As part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 
        (NATO) nuclear sharing policy, non-nuclear NATO members have 
        hosted United States nuclear weapons and associated forces 
        within their respective territories since the 1960s.
            (2) NATO's nuclear sharing policy was enacted during the 
        Cold War as a means to enhance deterrence of the Soviet Union 
        by involving non-nuclear NATO allies alongside the United 
        States, the United Kingdom, and France.
            (3) Turkey has been a member of NATO since the 
        organization's first enlargement in 1952.
            (4) Turkey's current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has 
        altered many long-standing Turkish policies and institutions, 
        making the Government of Turkey more authoritarian and 
        Islamist.
            (5) The failed coup attempt of July 2016 and the subsequent 
        reprisals against suspected participants raise concerns about 
        the stability of the Turkish government and the discipline of 
        its military.
            (6) Turkey continues to develop stronger relations with 
        geopolitical adversaries to NATO such as Russia, China, and 
        Iran.
            (7) In October 2019, in response to questions about the 
        security of United States strategic assets in Turkey, the 
        President of the United States noted ``we're confident, and we 
        have a great--a great air base there, a very powerful air 
        base.''.
            (8) The Incirlik Air Base website states, ``The 39 
        Operations Support Squadron leads world-class airfield & 
        support operations to orchestrate and control U.S., Turkish, 
        and coalition forces operating at Incirlik Airbase in the 
        execution of full-spectrum airpower and nuclear deterrent 
        operations.''.
            (9) Turkey denied the United States access to Incirlik Air 
        Base during the Iraq War in 2003 and refused to allow coalition 
        jets to use Incirlik when ISIS gained ground in Kobani, Syria, 
        in 2014.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN DEPLOYMENT OF 
              STRATEGIC ASSETS.

    None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter for the 
Department of Defense may be obligated or expended for the future 
deployment of any strategic assets of the United States in the Republic 
of Turkey.
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