NATO on Monday released a promotional video ahead of the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, highlighting T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s strategic location, defence industry, and the Turkish capital\u2019s historical and cultural heritage. Shared on the alliance\u2019s social media accounts, the video says: \u201cWelcome to Ankara. With 32 NATO leaders set to gather in T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s capital this week, get to know the host of the 2026 NATO Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strategic and historical highlights<\/p>\n
The video underscores T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s strategic position at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, highlighting its control of the Turkish Straits linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean as a key asset for global security, trade, and connectivity. It also showcases Ankara\u2019s historical legacy, noting that the city has been home to numerous ancient Anatolian civilisations and today hosts prominent museums, leading universities, and An\u0131tkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk. The video notes that Atat\u00fcrk chose Ankara as the capital because of its central and strategic location.<\/p>\n
Defence industry hub<\/p>\n
Highlighting Ankara\u2019s famous simit, the video adds that the capital is \u201cmuch more than iconic street food and remarkable history,\u201d describing it as \u201chome to T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s largest defence industry companies and serves as a major hub for military engineering and advanced technology.\u201d The alliance also notes that T\u00fcrkiye has been a NATO member since 1952, has played an active role within the alliance, and fields NATO\u2019s second\u2011largest military. The video features footage of Ankara Castle, An\u0131tkabir, the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, the Presidential Complex, the Bosphorus, and the country\u2019s defence industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO on Monday released a promotional video ahead of the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, highlighting T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s strategic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[913,38,14,243,673,97],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ankara","tag-defence","tag-defence-industry","tag-nato","tag-summit","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}