Within the opening days of the Iran-US-Israel war, the State Department urged Americans across 14 countries in the Middle East region to urgently depart. There's since been an ongoing US government facilitated evacuation effort. Private tour groups have also been coordinating to get people out.

For example, stranded tourists in Israel have rushed south, across the Egyptian border on buses, where they can safely arrange flights from Cairo. For the first time of the war,Turkey has just been added to the list- a rarity given it has long been viewed as a place of stability and is a prime tourist destination.

But the new State Department traveladvisoryhas yet to be extended over the whole of the country, instead Americans are beingwarned not to visit southeast Turkey and for anyone currently there to depart immediately.

It warns of the potential terrorism, armed conflict, and arbitrary detentions, according to the advisory - at a moment bombs between Iran, Israel, the US and Gulf countries continue to fly. And importantly, a staffdraw down:

Washington has advisednon-essential staff to leave its consulatenear the southern Turkish city of Adana near a key NATO base andordered US citizens to leave “southeast Turkey,”the US embassy to Ankara said Monday.

There are American troops at several bases in Turkey, particularly at NATO's major Incirlik air base, near Adana

"On March 9, 2026, the Department of State ordered non-emergency US government employees and US government employee family members to leave Consulate General Adana due to the safety risks," the US embassy said on X.

It further declared that "Americans in southeast Turkey arestrongly encouraged to depart now."

Last week saw a couple of very serious developments which impact Turkey. First, a ballistic missile from Iran flew over the large Asia minor country and was intercepted by NATO defenses in the Mediterranean.

Also, days ago there was an avalanche of global headlines alleging the CIA waspreparing Kurdish groups based in Iraq for a cross-border attack on Iran.

Source: ZeroHedge News