The recent NATO summit celebrated in Türkiye’s capital city of Ankara has brought a number of changes for the alliance, regarding militarization, defense spending, more aggressive posture both towards Russia and West Asia. These are continuations and radicalizations of already taken steps within the alliance. In the framework of the summit and beyond, the host country, Türkiye, has agreed to ...
By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its fifth year, the European security architecture is undergoing its most comprehensive transformation since the end of the Cold War. One of the latest stages of this transformation was the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Ankara. Whilst Western countries assessed the summit primarily in the ...
The recent NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, has been debated from various angles, from increased military spending to transatlantic relations. Prof. Erdem Ilker Mutlu takes a different approach. Mutlu is an expert on international law at the Hacettepe University in Ankara. His main thesis: In order to maintain its raison d’etre, NATO exceeds institutional competences and pretends to take over ...
By Sevim Dagdelen * At the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026, the military alliance set out to thoroughly discredit the myth of a community of values and defense. While Turkish President Erdoğan had hundreds of academics and journalists arrested beforehand to preemptively suppress protests against the military alliance’s meeting, NATO Secretary General Rutte described the ...
Last week was an eventful week in Türkiye. The NATO Summit held in Ankara topped the agenda. After the summit, claims that S-400 air defense systems Türkiye purchased from Russia would be sold to another country became a main topic of discussion. On the 10th anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt., the country saw renewed investigations into FETÖ ...
One of the key moments of the July 7–8 NATO Summit was the meeting between Erdoğan and Trump. CAATSA sanctions, S-400, the F-35, KAAN: intertwined quartet in Türkiye-US military relations During the meeting, Trump struck a positive tone on lifting the CAATSA sanctions imposed by the US on Türkiye and on Türkiye’s possible return to the F-35 program. These two ...
By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO’s 2026 annual summit concluded in Ankara on July 7–8. Diverging from its predecessors, the summit’s final declaration did not directly target China. Beginning with the 2019 London Declaration and continuing through the 2021 Brussels, 2022 Madrid, and 2023 Vilnius summits, NATO had consistently targeted China, defining it as the alliance’s foremost “systemic ...
The speech of Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, at the conference on Global Security and NATO. The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One of the speakers was ...
Speech of Ethem Sancak, Deputy Chairman of Vatan Party and founding member of Dunya Mer, at the conference on Global Security and NATO. The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One ...
What Ankara expects from the summit. Türkiye is preparing to host the NATO Summit on July 7–8 for the second time, at a moment when the Alliance is redefining its security strategy in response to the war in Ukraine and growing instability across the Middle East. For Ankara, the meeting represents more than a routine gathering of allied leaders; it ...