Chairman of the Turkish Grand National Assembly National Defense Commission and former Turkish Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar, T\u00fcrkiye’s Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Basat \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, and NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska attended a panel titled “Embracing Change, Safeguarding Tomorrow: T\u00fcrkiye & NATO in a Changing Security Landscape,” organized by the Directorate of Communications of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye in Brussels, Belgium on May 20, 2026.<\/p>\n
Panel focus<\/p>\n
The panel discussed T\u00fcrkiye’s strategic role within NATO amid evolving global security challenges, including the war in Ukraine, tensions in the Middle East, and the alliance’s adaptation to new threats. Discussions likely covered T\u00fcrkiye’s contributions to NATO missions and its position on alliance enlargement.<\/p>\n
NATO summit preparations<\/p>\n
The event comes ahead of the NATO summit to be hosted by T\u00fcrkiye in Ankara on July 7-8. Turkish officials have been briefing allies on preparations and emphasizing Ankara’s expectations for the summit to demonstrate alliance unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chairman of the Turkish Grand National Assembly National Defense Commission and former Turkish Minister of National Defense Hulusi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[46922,211,210,46921,46923,46920,74,12577,987,19080,46924,17255],"class_list":["post-88183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-basat-ozturk","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-directorate-of-communications","tag-embracing-change-safeguarding-tomorrow","tag-may-20","tag-nato","tag-panel","tag-policy","tag-political","tag-security-landscape","tag-turkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116611472894070744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}