Turkey is deploying a US-made Patriot air defense battery to Malatya and NATO says it has strengthened air and missile defenses after two projectiles were intercepted, while NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says Article 5 is not on the table.A NATO radar site at Kürecik, operated by a US team, helped identify the trajectories; fragments from the most recent intercept struck empty fields near Gaziantep and landed roughly 150 kilometers from the Incirlik air base where US personnel are stationed and where nuclear weapons are widely presumed to be located, prompting the USA to close its consulate in Adana.Iranian Foreign Minister
Abbas Araghchi spoke with Turkish counterpart
Hakan Fidan while Iranian President
Massud Peseschkian denies responsibility, and Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows that Ankara will take all necessary measures as it consults
NATO and allies.