NATO will help Turkey in developing air defense system

NATO has promised to help Turkey in the development of the air defense system along the border with Syria, declared the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg. Speaking about the presence of military unit in the region, he stressed that the NATO military would not participate in ground operations in Syria.

Military-air forces of Turkey have repeatedly been found to have violated the space of other countries, but with all that considered short - 17 seconds - crossing personal boundaries as a pretext for attack. Impartial data monitoring suggests that Russian su-24 was shot down even without such grounds Turkish F-16 struck on the ground in Syria.

At the same time, the Alliance promised to strengthen Turkey in this area. "NATO will help Turkey to improve its air defense. We long to attack Russian aircraft had a military presence in Turkey, along the border with Syria. And before Christmas we will make a package for it" - quotes TASS of the Secretary-General of the military block Jens Stoltenberg.

But help Ankara in this matter after the incident should not be regarded as an unfriendly step of the Russian Federation: according to him, the Alliance is interested in cooperation with Moscow. "Russia is a power with which we should cooperate when it comes to political solutions for these incidents. Reliable isolation of the Russian Federation was never our goal", - said Stoltenberg, RIA Novosti.

Talking about the presence of NATO forces in the middle East region, he found that the question of a ground operation is not. "It's not in the projects of the coalition and NATO allies. The United States has a limited number of specialized units. In the foreground is the strengthening of local forces. It's not easy, but it's the only option," said the Secretary General of the Alliance.

He added that the current opposition cannot be regarded as a war of the West with the Islamic world, as the entire civilized world opposes extremism and terrorism. "Muslims are on the front line in this war. Most of the victims were Muslims and most of those who fight against ISIL, being Muslim," said Stoltenberg.

We will remind, on November 24 Turkish F-16 fighter was shot down in the border areas of Syria bomber VKS the Russian su-24. The aircraft was present at the height of 6 thousand meters in one kilometer from the border with Turkey. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin declared that the accident would have serious results for the relationship 2-States. He called the incident a blow to the back. After the collapse of Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often expressed the wish to meet with national Director to reduce formed between States, the tensions, but the negotiations still took place.

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