At the NATO Lisbon summit in November 2010 , a strategic plan was concluded to establish a ballistic missile defense system covering all allince members . As a NATO member state , the government of Turkey approved the installation of an early warning radar system on its territory , however , insisted on a condition that all the information gathered at the radar station has to be strictly for use by the NATO memner states . After signing an agreement on final conditions in September 2011 , officials from Turkey and the U.S. determined a site nearby Kürecik town in Akçadağ district of Malatya Province as feasible . In the 1960s , the site hosted a radar base for surveillance of the Soviet Union airspace . Kürecik is located west of Malatya . The radar station is situated on the hill Çat Tepe at an elevation of
NATO Lisbon summit
2010 Lisbon summit
Kürecik Radar Station