NATO radar tarnishes Turkey image

Mahmut Akpinar said in a Monday interview with the Press TV correspondent in Ankara that the NATO system could “damage Turkey’s relations with some of its neighbors” that see the system as a threat to their security.

Akpinar added that the NATO system has harmed Ankara’s “policy of zero-tension with neighbors” and Turkey has witnessed a contradiction between its “commitments to NATO and the zero-tension policy over the system.”

The political analyst also stated that in the current situation Turkey could engage in close consultation with neighbors that consider the system as a threat to ensure the neighbors it is not a project against them.

Akpinar made the remarks a few days after Lieutenant General Mark Phillip Hertling, the US Army commander in Europe, said on February 26 the US forces were “in place” at the site of the NATO system in the Kurecik district in the southeastern province of Malatya.

Turkey agreed to host the NATO system on September 2, 2011 and part of it became operational in January.

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