Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan said that "According to the Article 4 of the Washington Treaty, our soil is NATO's soil". He said that to hint that a vote in parliament would not be necessary should NATO agree to deploy Patriot Missile to Turkey.

"This deployment - added the PM - should be seen only a defensive measure against possible attacks from the other side of the border, and the "other side of the border" is clearly Syria.