Turkey in the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine. After helping the Americans fight the Koreans in 1950, the Turks had welcomed admission to NATO; some of them, like I had, even viewed the Truman Doctrine as a rescue operation. By the mid-1950s, the United States had erected its own army, navy, air force, and intelligence stations all over Turkey; Incirlik Air Base, near the southern Turkish city of Adana, was to be America’s Middle Eastern outpost, and the place where America kept many of its nuclear weapons.
