Turkey's foreign minister says his country will soon make a formal request to NATO for Patriot missiles to bolster anti-aircraft defenses along its border with Syria. Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters Tuesday that talks with Turkey's allies on this possible deployment have reached the "final stage." He said: "The formal negotiations will be concluded at the shortest time possible. They won't last much longer." NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday in Brussels that NATO would consider Turkey's request as a matter of urgency, according to a report of the Associated Press.
