North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Mark Rutte announced that the 2026 NATO Summit will be held in Ankara, the capital of Türkiye. The leaders of the member countries will meet on July 7 and 8, 2026.
The meeting will take place at the Presidential Complex in the Beştepe district of Ankara. Mark Rutte thanked Türkiye, emphasising that the country has been a strong NATO ally for over 70 years and has made invaluable contributions to shared security.
The Secretary General said, "At our next Summit, leaders will continue to make NATO a stronger, fairer and more effective Alliance, ready to respond to critical challenges to our security."
This is the second time Türkiye will host a NATO Summit. The first NATO Summit in Türkiye was held in İstanbul in 2004, during which seven new member countries, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, were admitted.
At the latest summit held in The Hague on June 24–25, member countries agreed, among other things, to allocate 5% of their GDP to basic defence spending.
The news was published by Hromadske with reference to NATO's official website.