{"id":5052,"date":"2013-01-08T01:45:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/patriot-missiles-to-boost-turkey-s-air-defence\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:47:19","slug":"patriot-missiles-to-boost-turkey-s-air-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/patriot-missiles-to-boost-turkey-s-air-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot Missiles to Boost Turkey&#8217;s Air Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Dutch military is shipping its Patriot missiles to fellow NATO member Turkey to boost its air defenses amid the escalating war in neighboring Syria.}}<\/p>\n<p>The two Dutch batteries are part of a NATO contingent of Patriot missiles that intercept incoming ballistic missiles. <\/p>\n<p>Two U.S. and two German batteries are also being deployed to other parts of southern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch defense chief Gen. Tom Middendorp said Monday the missiles will remain in Turkey for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots are being transported by sea to Turkey. They are scheduled to become operational by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Stuttgart, Germany-based U.S. European Command said in a statement that U.S. personnel and equipment had started arriving at Turkey&#8217;s southern Incirlik Air Base. <\/p>\n<p>Some 400 personnel and equipment from the U.S. military&#8217;s Fort Sill, Oklahoma-based 3rd Battalion were to be airlifted to Turkey over the coming days, while additional equipment was expected to reach Turkey by sea later in January, the Command said.<\/p>\n<p>NATO endorsed Turkey&#8217;s request for the Patriots on Nov. 30 after several Syrian shells landed on Turkish territory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1881 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gf-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Dutch military is shipping its Patriot missiles to fellow NATO member Turkey to boost its air defenses amid the escalating war in neighboring Syria.}} The two Dutch batteries are part of a NATO contingent of Patriot missiles that intercept incoming ballistic missiles. Two U.S. and two German batteries are also being deployed to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}