T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Defense Industries Secretary Haluk G\u00f6rg\u00fcn held talks on Tuesday with senior officials from Spain, Poland and Japan on the sidelines of the NATO summit’s Defense Industry Forum in Ankara. G\u00f6rg\u00fcn said on the Turkish social media platform NSosyal that he met Spain\u2019s Deputy Defense Minister Maria-Amparo Valcarce and National Armaments Director Lt. Gen. Miguel Ivorra Ruiz, Polish Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi. The meetings addressed steps to strengthen cooperation in the defense industry, according to G\u00f6rg\u00fcn.<\/p>\n
Strategic partnerships<\/p>\n
The meetings underscore T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s growing defense partnerships with key NATO allies and Asia-Pacific partners. G\u00f6rg\u00fcn\u2019s talks with Spain come as the two countries cooperate on the H\u00dcRJET jet trainer program, while discussions with Poland follow recent defense agreements. The meeting with Japan, which is attending the NATO summit for the first time as a defense minister, reflects Tokyo\u2019s expanding engagement with the alliance and its partners. G\u00f6rg\u00fcn said: \u201cWe will continue to develop our cooperation with our allies and friendly countries on the basis of mutual trust and in line with our common interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
Summit context<\/p>\n
The Defense Industry Forum, held as part of the NATO summit, has already seen T\u00fcrkiye sign agreements in five strategic areas, including strike capabilities, integrated air and missile defense, space and surveillance, critical raw materials, and UAV superiority [citation needed]. The bilateral meetings reinforce T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s position as a key contributor to NATO\u2019s industrial transformation and its role as a bridge between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Defense Industries Secretary Haluk G\u00f6rg\u00fcn held talks on Tuesday with senior officials from Spain, Poland and Japan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,60,1426,485,243,97],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry","tag-defense","tag-gorgun","tag-industry","tag-nato","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","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=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}