NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday said the alliance is already benefiting from T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s defence industrial output, describing ASELSAN as one example among roughly 3,000 defence companies operating in the country. At a pre\u2011summit news conference in Ankara, Rutte underlined T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s strategic importance within NATO, citing its geographic location and rapidly expanding defence industrial base. \u201cNATO is already very much profiting from what T\u00fcrkiye is doing in terms of the defence industrial output,\u201d Rutte told reporters.<\/p>\n
ASELSAN is among the five companies selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) last year for NATO\u2019s Modular Air Defence Concept Stage. The company is also preparing new deliveries of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) systems and communication solutions. Rutte also thanked President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and his team for hosting allied leaders at what he described as a \u201cfantastic venue\u201d.<\/p>\n
Turning to the alliance\u2019s broader defence priorities, Rutte urged allies to convert increased defence spending into concrete military capabilities. \u201cAllies must translate our economic might into military capabilities,\u201d he said, calling on members to put \u201ccash to work\u201d for drones, missiles and air defence interceptors. Those efforts are expected to take centre stage at Tuesday\u2019s NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum, where allied governments and defence companies will unveil new defence contracts and multinational industrial initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday said the alliance is already benefiting from T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s defence industrial output,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[492,38,14,243,672,97],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aselsan","tag-defence","tag-defence-industry","tag-nato","tag-rutte","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}