Tuzla Air Base was a military airport near
Tuzla
Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History
Tuzla International was once the largest military airport of the
former Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...
. The
350th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron
The 350th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron (''Serbo-Croatian: {{lang, hr, 350. izviđačka avijacijska eskadrila / 350. извиђачка авијацијска ескадрила'') was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force established in A ...
was active there for a time.
It was placed under the control of the
United Nations Protection Force
The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR; also known by its French acronym FORPRONU: ''Force de Protection des Nations Unies'') was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav War ...
in 1992.
In 1996 it became the main hub for the
Implementation Force
The Implementation Force (IFOR) was a NATO-led multinational peace enforcement force in Bosnia and Herzegovina under a one-year mandate from 20 December 1995 to 20 December 1996 under the codename ''Operation Joint Endeavour''.
Background
In ...
(IFOR), which was charged with supervising the implementation of the
.
In 1998, the canton of Tuzla turned Tuzla International to a civil airport.
Tuzla International Airport
Tuzla International Airport () () (); is an airport in Živinice near Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the second largest airport in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after Sarajevo International Airport. The airport is known as a low-cost airline hub ...
opened on 10 October 1998 as a civilian airport and military airfield.
U.S. First Lady
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator represent ...
visited the airport on March 25, 1996, and later claimed that she landed under sniper fire and had to skip the welcoming ceremony, which later proved untrue.
Washington Post, May 23, 2016
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References
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Buildings and structures in Tuzla
Defunct airports
Airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yugoslav Air Force bases
Military installations closed in the 1990s