In Popular Culture
- Incirlik Air Base is featured in the 2008 Ridley Scott espionage film, Body of Lies, where it is the site of a staged terrorist bombing.
- Incirlik Air Base is featured in the 1997 film, Air Force One, where it dispatches F-15 Eagle fighter jets to rescue Air Force One.
- Incirlik Air Base is featured in the 2003 computer game, Command and Conquer: Generals, where it is destroyed by terrorists.
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