NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on allies to use next week\u2019s Ankara summit to translate promises into action, urging concrete progress on defence spending, industrial output, and support for Ukraine. In an interview with Anadolu, Rutte said the July 7\u20118 gathering should be a \u201csummit of delivery and implementation,\u201d building on commitments made at last year\u2019s Hague summit.<\/p>\n
Defence production and T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s role<\/p>\n
Rutte stressed the urgent need to accelerate defence industrial production across the alliance, warning that production timelines remain too long. \u201cNATO 3.0 is different from NATO 2.0, where we were overly dependent on the US,\u201d he said, adding that the future would see a stronger European-led NATO. He highlighted T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s expanding defence industrial base, noting that the country has become a major hub with around 3,000 defence companies. \u201cT\u00fcrkiye is extremely important to NATO,\u201d he said, praising its well\u2011equipped and well\u2011trained military.<\/p>\n
Long\u2011term threats and transatlantic unity<\/p>\n
Rutte identified Russia as NATO\u2019s primary long\u2011term security challenge, while also pointing to growing cooperation between Moscow, China, Iran, and North Korea. He said Europe\u2019s security must remain broad and transatlantic, stretching \u201cfrom California up to and including Ankara.\u201d On nuclear deterrence, he said NATO\u2019s existing framework, including US and UK capabilities and France\u2019s independent force, provides strong protection for allies. The Ankara summit will also feature a defence industry forum on its opening day, reflecting the alliance\u2019s focus on ramping up production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on allies to use next week\u2019s Ankara summit to translate promises…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[543,52,7,467,137],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ankara","tag-defence","tag-nato","tag-rutte","tag-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}