Defence industry experts and officials on Tuesday called for deeper transatlantic cooperation, greater interoperability, and stronger industrial partnerships among NATO allies during a panel held alongside the alliance’s summit in Ankara. The discussion on “Transatlantic Defense Industry Cooperation” was organised as part of the NATO Summit Dialogues by the Turkish Atlantic Council and the Center for Foreign Policy and Security Research, hosted by T\u00dcS\u0130AD.<\/p>\n
Key messages from the panel<\/p>\n
“It is no longer enough to say that allied forces can fight together. They increasingly need to be equipped, supplied and supported together,” said Fabrizio W. Luciolli of the Italian Defense Ministry, citing Italy-T\u00fcrkiye cooperation as a positive example of combining industrial expertise and financing. Bulgarian venture capital researcher Dimitar Dimitrov stressed the need for better integration of satellite imagery and naval assets among Black Sea countries, adding that “resources provided by Italy, T\u00fcrkiye and Bulgaria should be coordinated and interoperable.” Levent G\u00fclcan, general manager of Turkish manufacturer Yakupo\u011flu, highlighted the importance of equipment designed for diverse operational environments.<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s role<\/p>\n
Luciolli argued that governments must provide predictable policies allowing defence industries to expand production capacity and said NATO should remain “the centre of coherent cooperation” among allied industries. “Ankara demonstrates the success of this way of working,” he said. The panel reflects broader discussions at the NATO summit, where the alliance is showcasing its commitment to converting defence spending into modern capabilities. The Defence Industry Forum, held alongside the summit, has already seen T\u00fcrkiye sign agreements covering strike capabilities, air defence, space and surveillance, critical raw materials, and UAV superiority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defence industry experts and officials on Tuesday called for deeper transatlantic cooperation, greater interoperability, and stronger industrial partnerships…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[913,38,14,485,243,1624],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ankara","tag-defence","tag-defence-industry","tag-industry","tag-nato","tag-transatlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}