US Missiles in Turkey

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Following the Warsaw and Prague American militants about to take Ankara

2008-03-14 / Yevgeny Grigoryev, Viktor Litovkin

 

 

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pleased understanding with the Prime Minister of Turkey Rejep Tayyip Erdogan.

 

Prior to the visit to Moscow Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Pentagon chief Robert Gates has information on the plans for deployment of U.S. missile defense system on the territory of Turkey. If such information is confirmed, it would not only complicate the upcoming Russian-US negotiations, but also an additional source of tension between Moscow and Washington, as well as between Moscow and Ankara. Russia opposes the deployment of missile defense system in Europe, because, in her view, is upset the strategic balance of forces on the continent and could lead to a new arms race.

 

It is known that Americans still were negotiating to deploy missile defense system only with Poland and the Czech Republic. But now new details are known Robert Gates February visit to Ankara, where in the course of meetings with top leaders discussed plans to establish a United States missile defence system to deal with possible attacks from Iran. Told a Pentagon press secretary Jeff Morrell, which quoted the Turkish newspaper Turqish Daily News.

 

"Since the Turkish military, President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdogan discussed plans to establish a missile defense system" - said during a press conference Morrell. He did not go into detail, but a month before the American Lieutenant General Henry Obering, head of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agency, said that the United States is ready to deploy a powerful radar station in south-eastern Europe, preferably in Turkey, the Caucasus and the Caspian region . Such remarks gave rise observers began to talk about the negotiations between Washington and Ankara on connecting to the latest missile defense system. It is worth noting Gates promise to provide material support to Turkey in the modernization of the army.

 

Sergey Lavrov involved in the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference

The Austrian newspaper Die Presse reported, in turn, that Turkey can be deployed mobile radar and that negotiations on this should begin at the NATO summit. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Agency wants to build mobile and high-precision radar system in the country closer to Iran, the newspaper writes, and in this context called on Turkey. Using such a system could be better accuracy and clarity to monitor missiles, and even distinguish between real warheads from false. Currently, the United States used such a mobile radar in California.

 

Deputy Secretary of State John Rood, responsible for international security affairs, refused to confirm the fact of journalists searching the third location for the anti-missile defence in Europe. At present, as Rood said in Washington on Wednesday, no negotiation with other countries is not anticipated. However, he admitted that the planned in Poland and the Czech Republic system is not in a position to "protect" all allies. In the event of an attack from Iran to hit Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. At the NATO summit in early April in Bucharest will talk about the "how to deal with this threat," said Rood.

 

Message to American plans in Turkey appeared eve of his working visit to Moscow, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates, scheduled for March 17-18. The American representatives will hold talks with their counterparts - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov in the format "two plus two". The agenda of the talks - the problems of strategic stability, the joint Russian-American initiative in the field of non-proliferation, cooperation in the sphere of peaceful atom, the fight against terrorism, topical issues of international and regional security.

 

The issue of missile defense at this kind of meetings is a major. Moscow insists on the plans of not forcing the United States to deploy a European missile base under the pretext of fighting the missile threat from Iran. Russian experts believe that Tehran is not in the foreseeable future will have such a range missiles, which the United States and Europe will need to defend itself, and that the true purpose of the system - in its ability to resist Russian nuclear deterrence capabilities. If the third district position will be created, the radar in the Czech Republic will be "seeing" the territory of Russia up to the Urals, and the missile-interceptors, which is planned to install in Poland will be in a position to pose a threat to Russia's arsenal.

 

Last summer, President Vladimir Putin took the initiative, which boils down to the essence of collective monitoring of the implementation of the strategic development of the situation in the region raketoopasnyh using information from the radar, in particular from the radar station in Gabala. Terms of Putin's initiative is the refusal of the United States from deploying missile defense base in Europe and the deployment of anti-missile attack in space. The Americans have repeatedly stated that they are ready to consider Moscow's proposal only as a complement to their plans. Negotiations in this regard have not yielded tangible results.

 

First Vice-President of the Russian Academy of security, defence and law and order in Colonel General Viktor Yesin said resignation "NG" that "is hard to say anything definite is that the United States are going to be deployed in Turkey. The face and the potential of the system is unknown. It is not clear whether it could threaten Russia strategic restraint systems. But if these complexes are designed to protect against Iranian missiles, it is probable that it would be wiser to place the Pentagon in Turkey their THAAD system, which is now undergoing flight testing stage. They were able to shoot down missiles on airspace boost phase ".

 

I hope that you realize that if Turkey becomes the host for these American missiles, Russia will have its own rockets directed at Ankara! This is what Putin warned about when the US was planning to station its missiles in Central Europe about a year ago.

Putin also warned Ukraine about the same, but in case of the Ukrainian potential membership into NATO.

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USA to deploy another radar system in Turkey in addition to Poland and Czech Republic

 

The US administration has been conducting secret talks on the deployment of a mobile radar of its missile defense system in another European country – Turkey. The USA may start official negotiations on the matter during the NATO summit. For the time being it is known that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched upon the issue during his recent visit to Turkey. The new plans of the US administration may seriously aggravate its relations with Moscow.

 

The fact of USA’s negotiations with Turkey has been officially confirmed only on March 13, 2008. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters of Gates’s recent visit to Ankara, the capital of Turkey. US and Turkish officials discussed the military operation of the Turkish Army in Iraq. In addition, Morrell said, the parties discussed plans on the establishment of the missile defense system in Turkey.

 

John Rood, acting Undersecretary of State, previously rejected the fact of the negotiations. Rood particularly stated in Washington that the USA was not planning any missile defense talks with any countries other than Poland and the Czech Republic.

 

As it turns out, Robert Gates urged Turkey to cooperate in the creation of the third center of the missile defense system. The Pentagon head promised to render financial help to Turkey in terms of army modernization. According to Gates, investments in Turkey’s defense sector may reach one billion dollars.

 

The US-based Missile Defense Agency intends to deploy a mobile radar system in Turkey, the Austrian newspaper Die Presse wrote. For the time being, the USA uses only one such radar, which is located in California.

 

Apparently, the systems, which the USA intends to build in Poland and the Czech Republic, will not be able to protect all allies. Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey may suffer from a possible missile attack from Iran, US officials believe. The NATO summit is to discuss the problem at a meeting in Bucharest, in April.

 

Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

Pravda.ru

 

 

 

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USA to deploy thousands of its interceptor missiles globally

 

 

Russia ’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that the US administration plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in many countries of the world.

 

“Most likely, we will hear them talking about hundreds and even thousands of interceptor missiles in different parts of the globe, including Europe,” Lavrov said in and interview with the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.

 

The minister specified that objects of the U.S. missile defense system have been created or are being created in Alaska, California and North-Eastern Asia. The minister added that Moscow is deeply concerned about the US strategic infrastructure approaching Russian borders, Interfax reported.

 

Sergei Lavrov said that the U.S. administration did not even intend to guarantee at least minimum restrictions for the deployment of its global air defense. The Russian minister said that it did not go about a dozen interceptor missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic alone. “The problem is a lot more serious. Does anyone really think that Russia will calmly watch the USA increasing its strategic potential near Russia’s borders?” the minister said.

 

President Putin touched upon the subject of NATO’s close presence to Russia at the latest session of the Council of State. “The new arms race that one can witness growing in the world today and the absence of any attempts on NATO’s part to find compromises on the problem push Russia towards making adequate decisions to defend its national security,” Putin said.

 

Vladimir Putin lambasted the West for its military expansion toward Russia's borders and laid out an ambitious agenda for his successor to restore the country's economic and military clout in a farewell address Friday as he prepared to step aside as president.

 

With less than a month remaining before the election, Putin's speech before dozens of top government officials, cultural figures, religious leaders and military officers served as a report card on his own achievements and a reminder of his wide popularity among Russians, the AP reports.

 

It was also a signal that "Putinism" - a doctrine of assertive economic and military policies and unwavering centralized power - should be expected to continue under the man he has tapped to succeed him: First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

 

"What I'm saying now is not just being said on the eve of the election. This isn't a campaign slogan. This is of vital necessity for the improvement of the country," he told the audience gathered in an ornate Kremlin palace ballroom.

 

With the audience interrupting him with applause nearly two dozen times during the more than 45-minute, nationally televised address, Putin again lashed out at "foreign interference" in Russia's internal affairs - a warning aimed at building criticism in the West about how free and fair the March vote will be. On Thursday, an authoritative international group said it would not send observers to monitor the vote.

 

"Attempts of foreign interference in the course of the political battles within Russia are not only immoral, but also illegal," Putin said.

 

Speaking forcefully at times and gesturing with his fists, he listed the successes of his tenure, noting the country's rising birth rate and growth of the middle class. He asserted that the rule of law had been restored after what he described as the chaotic years of the 1990s.

 

"One can say with confidence now that political lawlessness for the people of Russia has ended," he said.

 

 

 

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USA plans to encircle Russia with missiles systems and radars

 

As long as the U.S. administration conducts talks on the use of Russian radar stations in Azerbaijan and Armavir (the Krasnodar region of Russia), the Pentagon harbors other plans. The USA intends to deploy more elements of its missile defense system to the south of Russia in addition to the missile base in Poland and the radar station in the Czech Republic. The chairman of the US Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant-General Henry Obering said in the beginning of spring that the United States would like to deploy a radar station in the Caucasian region.

 

Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN) showed pictures of the draft missile defense system in Europe to Russian journalists at the end of October. A mobile radar station in the Caspian region was marked on one of the pictures. Spokespeople for the BBN said that the radar was marked on the map by mistake. However, the station can be clearly seen on the map posted on the website of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. It is a centimetric radar that can be mounted on a mobile platform based on both water and ground surface. The radar allowed for the detection of smaller objects and for a more precise targeting of intercepting missiles.

 

Spokespeople for the US Missile Defense Agency, the Pentagon and the State Department declined to comment the situation.

A source from the Russian Defense Ministry said in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper that a radar station deployed near Russia’s southern borders would let the USA control the launches of Iran’s non-existent long-range missiles as well as Russia’s tests of new defense technologies that are presumably conducted in the south of the country and in Kazakhstan.

 

“If the United States had had serious intentions regarding the deployment of an additional radar station in the Caspian region, Russian military officials would have informed the government on that long ago,” the chairman of the Committee for Defense and Security of Russia’s Federation Council, Viktor Ozerov said.

 

The USA plans to detect the launches of Iranian missiles with the help of satellites. “The radar is not really needed for the early detection of missile launches. However, if the USA intends to deploy more radars around Russia, the station in the Caucasian region will come in handy. The USA already works on a missile defense system in the Far East. They would need to deploy one more radar somewhere in Mongolia to cover Russia’s territory completely,” the Director of the Center for Disarmament Studies, Anatoly Dyakov said.

 

From the point of view of the classic nuclear strategy, the defense infrastructure, the building of which we can witness now, can be used against Russia in the future.