NATO to consider Turkey request for Patriots 'without delay'
- Published: 22 Nov 2012 at 01.47
- Online news: World
NATO will consider "without delay" a request from member Turkey for a deployment of surface-to-air Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria, Alliance chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.
Air Defence Missile Squadron 2 with a Patriot missile launcher during an exercise at training site Warbelow near Gnoien, northern Germany, in 2008. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday said the alliance would consider "without delay" a request from member Turkey for a deployment of surface-to-air Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria.
"I have received a letter from the Turkish government requesting the deployment of Patriot missiles," Rasmussen said in a statement.
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