Turkey will deploy its F-16 jets in Poland as part of NATO's Baltic Air-policing mission, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a state visit to Ankara by Poland's President Andrzej Duda.
"Turkey, as part of NATO's Baltic Air-policing mission, will soon deploy its F-16 jets in Poland," he said, hailing the dispatch of Polish maritime patrol aircraft and military missions to the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey under NATO's assurance measures adapted to Ankara.
For his part, Duda said Turkey was the "strongest ally" of Poland in "this part of the world" and thanked Erdogan for the Turkish pilots "protecting the skies," Daily Sabah reported.
