Photo by Staff Sgt. Koby Saunders | 39th Air Base Wing | 11.23.2025
Turkish Air Force Brig. Gen. Kemel Güleç, right, 10th Main Jet Base command, presents a certificate to Mehmet Biribiri, 39th Air Base Wing host nation advisor, recognizing his 50th year of service at Incirlik Air Base, Turkiye, Nov. 24, 2025. As a host nation advisor, Birbiri has served as a critical liaison between the U.S. and Turkish communities at Incirlik Air Base, strethening......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Koby Saunders | 39th Air Base Wing | 11.23.2025
U.S. Air Force Col. Albert Esposito, 39th Air Base Wing commander, presents a certificate of service to Mehmet Birbiri, 39th ABW Public Affairs host nation advisor, recognizing his 50th year of service at Incirlik Air Base, Turkiye, Nov. 24, 2025. As a host nation advisor, Birbiri has served as a critical liaison between the U.S. and Turkish communities at Incirlik Air Base, strethening......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Koby Saunders | 39th Air Base Wing | 11.23.2025
Mehmet Biribiri, 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs host nation advisor, speaks during a ceremony recognizing his 50th year of service at Incirlik Air Base, Turkiye, Nov. 24, 2025. As a host nation advisor, Birbiri has served as a critical liaison between the U.S. and Turkish communities at Incirlik Air Base, strethening international relations and enabling several major U.S. Air Force......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Koby Saunders | 39th Air Base Wing | 11.23.2025
Yucel Birbiri, pins a 50 years of service pin onto her husband Mehmet Birbiri, 39th ABW Public Affairs host nation advisor, recognizing his 50th year of service at Incirlik Air Base, Turkiye, Nov. 24, 2025. As a host nation advisor, Birbiri has served as a critical liaison between the U.S. and Turkish communities at Incirlik Air Base, strethening international relations and enabling several......
Photo by Eleanor Prohaska | 21st Theater Sustainment Command | 10.05.2021
(l to r) NATO School Instructor, Maj. Derek Burke (USA) and Lt. Col Csaba Holman (Hungary), joined nearly 40 host nation support professionals representing 15 nations attending the National Territorial Commanders Committee meeting in Deidesheim, Germany October 4-6, 2021. Participants received updates on U.S. host nation support policy and other briefs, and shared initiatives to improve......
Photo by Senior Airman Matthew Angulo | 39th Air Base Wing | 03.22.2021
Mehmet Birbiri, 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs host nation advisor, poses for a photo in his office at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, 22 March 2021. Birbiri stands in front of several awards and recognitions he’s received over his many years of service. (U.S Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Matthew Angulo)...
Photo by Senior Airman Matthew Angulo | 39th Air Base Wing | 10.19.2020
Mehmet Birbiri, 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs host nation advisor, poses for a photo on the flightline at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, April 1991. As the world watched the fighting settle at the end of the Gulf War; a then 41 year old Birbiri boarded the first military aircraft delivering humanitarian aid to refugees in northern Iraq, who were fleeing toward the Turkish border. (Courtesy Photo)...
Photo by Senior Airman Matthew Angulo | 39th Air Base Wing | 10.01.2020
Mehmet Birbiri, bottom row second from left, 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs host nation advisor, sits with his classmates and instructors from the Teachers Training College pose for a photo in Istanbul, Turkey, 1972. Mehmet remains in contact with a majority of his classmates to this day. (Courtesy photo)...
