NATO

NATO Summit Ankara: Türkiye’s Military and EU Role

Türkiye is preparing to host the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (hereinafter: NATO) summit in Ankara, an event that will see allied defence ministers and senior alliance officials visit the newly completed Ay Yıldız Joint Headquarters — a facility consolidating the National Defence Ministry, the General Staff and the armed forces commands under a single roof....

Türkiye’s Military Alignment: NATO, an Islamic Army or the Turan Army?

Türkiye’s debate on military alignment is increasingly narrated as a civilisational choice: remaining anchored in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (hereinafter: NATO) or turning towards alternatives often invoked in public discourse as a “Turan Army” or an “Islamic Army”. This framing is politically evocative, but analytically misleading. NATO is an existing alliance with decades of...

Greenland Framework Deal Eases Tensions After Tariff Threat Reversal

The President of the United States of America announced today at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos that a Greenland framework deal had been reached with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (hereinafter: NATO), Mark Rutte, leading him to withdraw a planned tariff threat against multiple European states opposing his previous stance on...