Turkey summons Iranian envoy to protest ballistic missile heading toward airspace

Turkey summons the Iranian ambassador to Ankara to its foreign ministry to convey its protest and concerns over a ballistic missile fired from Iran that was heading towards its airspace, a Turkish diplomatic source says.

The Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that a ballistic missile fired from Iran and heading into Turkish airspace after passing Syria and Iraq was destroyed by NATO air and missile defense systems in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, causing no casualties.

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