March 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday and pledged Washington’s full support following missile attacks from Iran, the U.S. State Department said.
Turkey on Wednesday said that NATO air defenses destroyed an Iranian ballistic missile headed into Turkish airspace.
Rubio told Fidan that “the attacks on Turkey’s sovereign territory were unacceptable and pledged full support from the United States,” the State Department said in a statement.
(Reporting by David Ljunggrenl; Writing by Christian Martinez)
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