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| US withdraws air defense missiles from Turkey’s Kurdish southeast |
| 2015-10-14 |
| [Rudaw] The United States has withdrawn its Patriot air defense missiles from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Kurdish southeast, the official Anadolu Agency reported Tuesday. "The Patriot air defense missiles deployed by the United States in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province since 2013 have left the country," it quoted security sources as saying. At Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun the missiles were placed on the Ocean Globe heavy lift vessel, which later left for the United States. Patriots and personnel were deployed in Gaziantep after Turkey appealed to its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... allies to guard against any missile threat from war-torn Syria. The deployment expired this month, and the US said in August it was not being renewed. Also in August, Germany said it was immediately withdrawing its missile defense system from Germany. Turkey has come under criticism for allowing jihadist groups free rein across its borders into Syria, which has been a magnet for Islamist fighters from around the world. |
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