Turkey Patriot defenses to be ready next month

By Slobodan Lekic

Published December 13, 2012 7:15pm ET

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Turkey Patriot defenses to be ready next month — In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather next to cars that were destroyed by a car bomb in Qatana, (25) kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. A bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed more than a dozen people, at least half of them women and children, the state news agency reported. Russia, Syria's most important international ally, said for the first time that President Bashar Assad is increasingly losing control and the opposition may win the civil war. (AP Photo/SANA) | Anonymous

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Patriot air defense missiles being deployed to protect Turkey from spillover from Syria’s civil war will become operational at the end of January, officials said Thursday. In addition, NATO will send Turkey special aircraft that can detect missile launches from Syria.

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