Published: 11.20.10, 12:12 / Israel News
President Abdullah Gul of Turkey says a NATO summit agreement to build a missile shield over Europe has met Ankara’s demands. An alliance member that maintains close ties to neighboring Iran, Turkey had refused to let NATO name Tehran as a threat. At the Lisbon summit,
NATO leaders did not explicitly identify any potential enemy, although Iran is its main concern.
The state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Gul as saying Saturday that the agreement “was within the framework of what we wished. We are pleased about this.” Under it, a limited system of US anti-missile interceptors and radars already planned for Europe, to include interceptors in Romania and Poland and possibly a radar in Turkey, would be linked to expanded European-owned missile defenses. (AP)
via Turkey: NATO agreement meets demands – Israel News, Ynetnews.
Leave a Reply