On the margins of the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit, the panel titled "Turning the Table: Ukraine as a Security Provider for Europe" was held as part of the "Allies in Ankara" programme, co-organised by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications, the Munich Security Conference (MSC), and the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA). Tom Berendsen, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maria Malmer Stenergard, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, and Andrii Sybiha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, participated in the panel session on "Turning the Table: Ukraine as a...
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On the margins of the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit, the panel titled "Looking Ahead to the Ankara Summit" was held as part of the "Allies in Ankara" programme, co-organised by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications, the Munich Security Conference (MSC), and the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA). The panel discussion titled "Looking Ahead to the Ankara Summit" at Ankara Palas was attended by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Chair of the Turkish Delegation of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (GNAT) to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) and AK Party Antalya...
As part of the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit, the panel titled "Why Narva Is Not Next: Rethinking Assumptions About the Baltic States’ Vulnerability" was held during the "Allies in Ankara" programme, organised by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications in cooperation with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) and the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA). The panel, moderated by the Baltic International Security Centre and held at Ankara Palas, featured Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže of Latvia, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to NATO Darius Jauniškis, and Martin Roger, Political Director at the...
An opening reception was held as part of the "NATO Summit Dialogues" event, organised by the Turkish Atlantic Council (ATA Türkiye) in cooperation with the Hariciye Foreign Policy and Security Research Center. The reception, held in Ankara, featured remarks by Ambassador Mehmet Fatih Ceylan, former Permanent Representative of Türkiye to NATO and President of ATA Türkiye; Emin Abbas Gürbüz, Secretary General of ATA Türkiye; and Theodossios Georgiou, President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA). Ambassador Ceylan referred to the panel discussions and roundtable meetings that would be held on 7 July as part of the ...
The “Values of Türkiye” and “Portrait of the Türkiye Brand in Figures” exhibitions, organised by the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications as part of the NATO Summit, brought together Türkiye’s cultural heritage, international achievements, and strategic capabilities with domestic and international visitors. Prepared by the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications as part of the NATO Summit held in Ankara on 7–8 July, the exhibitions were presented at various locations across the capital with the aim of promoting Türkiye to the international community through a comprehensive and multidimensional perspective. Hosted in areas frequented by Turkish and foreign...
1,800 workstations, 40 editing rooms and over 100 live broadcast points – 54 of which are fixed – have been made available at the International Media Centre set up at the Nation's Library of the Presidency for the 36th NATO Leaders' Summit. As part of the summit to be held on 7–8 July, around 2,500 journalists, television crews, photojournalists, digital media representatives, and international broadcasters from all over the world will be working in Ankara. A NATO task force was set up to oversee media and broadcasting activities, accreditation processes, promotional activities, crisis communication, and public diplomacy practices throughout the summit. In this context, a total of 850 personnel,...
The overseas event series organised by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications ahead of the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit, to be held in Ankara on 7–8 July, has concluded. The initiative was launched to inform international public opinion ahead of the Summit and to share Türkiye's perspective on its role within NATO and on the Alliance's current security challenges. The series came to a close with the programme held in Zagreb on 2 July, following events organised in the capitals of 13 NATO Allied countries: Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands,...
The Directorate of Communications organised a panel titled “Burden Sharing and Alliance Cohesion: What to Expect from Ankara NATO Summit” in cooperation with the Institute for Development and International Relations in Zagreb. The Presidency's Directorate of Communications has been organising NATO-themed events in the capitals of various NATO allies ahead of the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit scheduled to take place in Ankara on 7–8 July 2026. The different stages of the series of programmes, carried out in cooperation with think tanks and institutions in the respective countries, were held successively in various capitals such as Madrid, Paris, London, Warsaw,...
The Directorate of Communications organised a panel discussion entitled "From the Baltic to the Mediterranean: Connecting NATO's Strategic Flanks" in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in collaboration with the Geopolitics and Security Studies Centre (GSSC). Ahead of the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit, which will take place in Ankara on 7–8 July 2026, the Directorate of Communications of the Republic of Türkiye has been organising NATO-focused programmes in the capitals of NATO member states. This series of programmes, carried out in collaboration with think tanks in the respective countries, was held in Madrid, Paris, London, Warsaw, Washington, Rome, Brussels,...