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Turkey tells Iran violation of its airspace unacceptable
Turkey deployed a Patriot missile defense system near the Kurecik NATO radar base after two Iranian ballistic missiles threatened its airspace, a response to rising regional tensions.
- On Monday, Turkey's defense ministry announced a Patriot missile defense deployment near the Kurecik NATO radar base after a ballistic missile from the Iranian armed forces entered Turkish airspace.
- Ankara sees Turkey as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East and fears the US–Israel war with Iran could spread, unsettling Kurdish minority areas along the 530-kilometer border.
- NATO reportedly shot down two incoming Iranian missiles in recent days, with the first intercepted over the Mediterranean on March 4 while Iranian armed forces officials denied firing at Turkey.
- Officials warn of tourism slowdowns and supply-chain strains as Ankara fears higher Turkish inflation, energy supply chain bottlenecks, and displacement with 2 million Afghans predicted to leave Iran.
- Sinan Ulgen says Turkey has stepped up diplomatic outreach with little progress, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen praised Turkey's preparedness, and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Al Jazeera 'Iran is ready to negotiate on the nuclear file again'.
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Iran war: Turkey caught between a rock and a hard place
Turkey has long been seen as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East — geographically as well as diplomatically. As tensions rose between Washington and Tehran, Ankara had first attempted to mediate, warning that it would be "wrong to start the war again." "Iran is ready to negotiate on the nuclear file again," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network in an interview late January. "My advice has alway…
Iran fired two rockets at Turkey, whose government wants to sit out the war, but it could become a war party more quickly than it likes.
Iranian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Abbas Araghchi and Hakan Fidan held a telephone conversation today in light of the heightened situation in the region following the Israeli-American attack on Iran eleven days ago. The Iranian foreign minister told his counterpart, among other things, that the missiles intercepted by NATO systems over Turkey in recent days did not come from Iran.
"The missiles that were directed towards Turkish airspace did not originate from Iran," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, adding that a comprehensive investigation into the incident would be conducted.
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