The agreement for US planes to use Incirlik base in southern Turkey envisages a 90km no-fly zone between the Syrian towns of Marea and Jarabulus to the east, the Hurriyet daily said.
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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said authorities are investigating local and global connections to the suspect they believe is responsible for the Turkey attack.
ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP/Getty Images The suicide bombing killed 32 people and wounded more than 100 in southeastern Turkey on Monday.
The deal granting access U.S. forces use of Incirlik for manned air attacks on ISIS was said to have been sealed with a high level phone call between President Barack Obama and his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The safe zone would aim at preventing infiltration by IS and other jihadists to discourage a new flow of refugees to Turkey, it said.
The ISIS attack, which targeted a group of youth activists and humanitarians, injured an estimated 100 people.
Where necessary, US-led coalition forces could conduct reconnaissance and assault operations in the area, Hurriyet said. The United States has longed press Turkey for access to the base at Incirlik to launch manned flights and bombing raids on Syrian and Iraqi territory held by the Islamic State, but the Turkish government has previously only given permission for unmanned attacks, and even that took months of convincing.
Erdogan’s remarks came after Turkish warplanes struck ISIS targets across the border in Syria early on Friday following a wave of deadly violence in the country.
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The raids marked a major shift in policy towards IS by key North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Turkey, which has faced severe criticism from its Western allies for not doing enough to combat the militants.
