Turkey To Request Patriot Missiles Be Deployed Along Syrian Border

Turkey is expected to make an official request to NATO to enhance missile defenses and station the Patriot missiles along its border with Syria. According to a senior Turkish foreign ministry official, there is a potential threat from Syria which Turkey wants to counter. A Nato spokeswoman in Brussels, said, “We haven’t received a request. As the Secretary-General said on Monday, the allies will consider any request that is brought to the North Atlantic Council”. Turkey has already bolstered its own military presence along the 910-km (border and has been responding in kind to gunfire and mortar shells hitting its territory from fighting between Syrian rebels and Syrian government forces, according to Reuters News Agency.