NATO Solidarity with Turkey Gives a Boost to the Alliance’s Territorial Defence Guarantees

Bulletin PISM, No. 3 (456), 7 January 2013
The Polish Institute of International Affairs

Wojciech Lorenz & Pinar Elman *

The deployment of NATO Patriot missiles to Turkey increases the credibility of territorial defence guarantees offered by the Alliance to its members. Such a decision may encourage Ankara  to embrace NATO again as a major pillar of  Turkish security. The missile threat to Turkey, despite its attempts to foster close relations with its neighbours, vindicates Polish plans to develop its own missile defence capabilities as part of an overall  NATO system.

* Wojciech Lorenz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Pinar Elman is an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

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