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    TURKEY HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/
    11.02.2010 18:47 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey has nuclear weapons, NATO Ex-Secretary General
    George Robertson was quoted as saying by the TIME TURK Web site.

    As he said, that weapons are kept in the Incirlik military base of
    U.S in Turkey's territory. According to the source, the number of
    weapons stored in Turkey reaches 40-90.

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the (North)
    Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based
    on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949. The
    NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization
    constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states
    agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

    The Treaty of Brussels, signed on March 17, 1948 by Belgium, the
    Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the United Kingdom is considered
    the precursor to the NATO agreement. The treaty and the Soviet Berlin
    Blockade led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defense
    Organization in September 1948. However, participation of the United
    States was thought necessary in order to counter the military power
    of the USSR, and therefore talks for a new military alliance began
    almost immediately.

    These talks resulted in the North Atlantic Treaty, which was signed
    in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 1949. It included the five Treaty
    of Brussels states, as well as the United States, Canada, Portugal,
    Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Popular support for the Treaty
    was not unanimous; some Icelanders commenced a pro-neutrality,
    anti-membership riot in March 1949.

    Greece and Turkey joined the alliance in 1952, forcing a series of
    controversial negotiations, in which the United States and Britain
    were the primary disputants, over how to bring the two countries into
    the military command structure. In July 1997, three former communist
    countries, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland, were invited
    to join NATO, which finally happened in 1999. Membership went on
    expanding with the accession of seven more Northern European and
    Eastern European countries to NATO: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
    and also Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania. They were first
    invited to start talks of membership during the 2002 Prague Summit,
    and joined NATO on 29 March 2004, shortly before the 2004 Istanbul
    summit. At the April 2008 summit in Bucharest, Romania, NATO agreed
    to the accession of Croatia and Albania and invited them to join. Both
    countries joined NATO in April 2009.

    In August 2003, NATO commenced its first mission ever outside Europe
    when it assumed control over International Security Assistance Force
    (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
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