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Source: https://www.rt.com/news/410531-turkey-nato-radar-retaliation/
Turkish Media Says Ankara Could Disable U.S. Radar Station that Would Warn Israel of Iranian Missile Attack
(RT-Russia) An editorial in the Turkish pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper on Sunday said Ankara could leave Israel exposed to an Iranian missile attack by disabling the NATO X-band early-warning radar station at Kurecik, in retaliation for a possible Washington ban on the purchase of F-35 fighter jets. Heidi Grant, the deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force for international affairs, had earlier said that Turkey's deployment of the Russian-made S-400 anti-aircraft missile system may expose vulnerabilities of the F-35 jets that Turkey plans to purchase. The newspaper says that unlike similar surveillance sites in Israel, Jordan, Qatar and the UAE, the Kurecik station can detect missile launches from the entire western part of Iran.