Leaders of the 28-member NATO alliance endorsed plans in Lisbon last year to launch a Europe-wide ballistic missile shield.
"Our country has supported this decision since the very beginning and actively contributed to the process," Selcuk Unal, spokesman for the Turkish foreign ministry, said in a written statement Thursday.
Unal said technical negotiations about the deployment of the defense architecture in Turkey "have reached a final stage," adding that the Turkish contribution will "strengthen NATO's defense capacity and Turkey's national defense system.
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