Ankara warned Tehran on Saturday not to try to launch missiles into Turkish territory, days after NATO intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Iran and headed for Turkey.
“We are not a country that can be provoked easily,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told reporters in Istanbul, according to AFP.
“We talked to our friends in Iran and told them that if it was a missile that lost its trajectory, that's one thing. But if these kinds of situations continue … our advice is: be careful, don't let anyone in Iran go on such an adventure.”
NATO air and missile defense systems stationed in the eastern Mediterranean on Wednesday destroyed an Iranian-launched ballistic missile heading toward Turkish airspace after passing over Syria and Iraq, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
