Turkey, which could play a central role in hosting a projected NATO missile defense system, is seeking a broad consensus on the plan, the Turkish media reported Thursday.
Turkey's foreign and defence ministers are in Brussels for a NATO meeting, where the missile defence plan will be discussed, DPA reported.
"We will assess together what can be done to agree on a common strategy within the alliance system," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a press conference on Tuesday.
According to reports in the Turkish press, Ankara has reservations about the plan because of its flourishing trade and political relations with both Iran and Russia.
Turkey imports a majority of its natural gas from those two countries. Yet both countries are viewed as the potential source of missiles that the defence shield would protect against.
The United States-led missile defense system would place radar systems and sea and land-based interceptors in various countries in southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, which would act as a first line of defence against enemy ballistic missiles.
One of the primary missile threats to Europe and the US is considered to be Iran, although Russian missiles could also possibly be tracked with the planned system.
In recent remarks, US officials have pointed to Turkey as a critical country in making the missile defence plan a reality, because of its strategic geographic location.
"As we look at where the ballistic missile threats can come from, Turkey seems to us to be very much along the front lines," Jim Townsend, deputy assistant US secretary of defence for European and NATO policy recently said.