T\u00fcrkiye signed agreements under the 2026 NATO Defence Industry Forum on several strategic capability areas to be developed jointly by member states, the head of the country\u2019s Defence Industries Secretariat said Tuesday. Haluk G\u00f6rg\u00fcn said on the Turkish social media platform NSosyal that the agreements cover strike capabilities, integrated air and missile defence systems, space and surveillance capabilities, critical raw materials for the defence industry, and NATO\u2019s unmanned aerial vehicle superiority.<\/p>\n
Key players and strategic significance<\/p>\n
\u201cThese projects, which will include ASELSAN, Roketsan, STM and T\u00dcB\u0130TAK, will form the backbone of the alliance’s deterrence architecture in the coming years,\u201d G\u00f6rg\u00fcn said. The agreements were signed during the NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum, being held in Ankara as part of the July 7-8 NATO Summit. The forum is NATO\u2019s premier high-level event on transatlantic defence production, investment and innovation, with this year\u2019s agenda focused on increasing defence production, cooperation and joint procurement across the alliance.<\/p>\n
NATO\u2019s growing consensus<\/p>\n
The forum comes as NATO allies seek to expand industrial capacity and reinforce deterrence amid rising security challenges, with T\u00fcrkiye positioning its defence industry as a key contributor to alliance capabilities. The agreements reflect the alliance\u2019s growing consensus for industrial expansion, following the Defence Production Action Plan announced at the 2023 Vilnius summit and the Industrial Capacity Expansion Pledge agreed at the 2024 Washington summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye signed agreements under the 2026 NATO Defence Industry Forum on several strategic capability areas to be developed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[492,38,14,485,243,97],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aselsan","tag-defence","tag-defence-industry","tag-industry","tag-nato","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}