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- Germany will deploy a Patriot missile-defence system to Turkey for six months starting in June.
- Turkey will replace the U.S. Patriot system in southeast Turkey with the German unit in June.
- The swap follows a March deployment of a U.S. Patriot near a NATO radar base amid Iranian missile threats.
- Turkey, NATO’s second-largest army, relies on allied air-defence assets after NATO forces shot down four Iranian ballistic missiles.
