German Patriot missiles arrive in Turkey
About 300 transportation means and 130 containers with equipment arrived at Port Travemunde with Patriot missiles for Turkey. Suecia Seaways (Denmark) is being loaded with the said equipment.
170 German soldiers will take Patriot missiles from Iskanderun to Kahramanmarash 100 km away from the Syrian border. About 3050 German soldiers will manage the missile systems to protect Turkey from Syrian attacks. They arrived from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein.
Adapted from Vestnik kavkaza
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