Kisecik Radar Station

For the military installation in Malatya Province, see Kürecik Radar Station.

Kisecik Radar Station (Turkish: Kisecik Radar Üssü) is a military installation located at Kisecik village of Antakya district in Hatay Province, southern Turkey.^[1]

Kisecik Radar Station
Kisecik Near Antakya in Turkey
Site information
Type	Radar station
Operator	NATO
Controlled by	NATO Integrated Air Defense System (European Phased Adaptive Approach, EPAA & Combined Air Operations Centre, CAOC)
Open to the public	No
Location
Kisecik Radar Station Location of Kisecik Radar Station in Turkey.
Coordinates	36.30379°N 36.00402°E / 36.30379; 36.00402
Site history
Built	2004; 21 years ago (2004)

Construction of the facility for use by NATO started in 1998. It went into service in the summer of 2004. It is situated on a 1,770 m (5,810 ft)-high hilltop of the Nur Mountains close to the Syria–Turkey border. The radar station can cover an area including Middle Eastern countries, Syria and Israel. The radar base has installations in underground and aboveground, and is protected by fences.^[2] The next radar base in Hatay Province is the Atik Plateau Radar Station at Belen, Hatay.^[3]

See also

• Kürecik Radar Station in Malatya Province, eastern Turkey