Spain to keep Patriot unit in Turkey until June 2023

Spain has once again extended the deployment period of a Patriot air defense missile unit in Turkey. This time, the soldiers and their equipment will remain till June 2023.

PATRIOT SAM launcher at ILA 2012
By Sivi Steys (Flickr: Patriot) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons


Deployed in Adana, the Spanish Patriot unit has been stationed there since 2015. Taking over from the Netherlands, which arrived in January 2013 to protect Turkey from possible attacks by Syria.

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