{"id":6938,"date":"2026-07-07T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/6938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:50:16","slug":"live-updates-trump-arrives-in-turkey-for-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/6938\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump arrives in Turkey for NATO summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of protestors from leftist, pro-Palestinian and Kurdish parties in central Istanbul marched against the NATO summit being held in Ankara Tuesday, chanting, \u201cMurderer, USA, get out of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to protest the hosting in Ankara \u2014 at a cost of millions of dollars \u2014 of NATO, an organization we regard as a massacre machine established to preserve global hegemony,\u201d said Ali G\u00fcltekin, 21.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-300000\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"People march during a demonstration against the NATO summit, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Poster in the center reads in Turkish: &quot;Murderer Trump. Get out of Turkey&quot;. (AP Photo\/Erdem Sahin)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783457416_162_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People march during a demonstration against the NATO summit, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Poster in the center reads in Turkish: \u201cMurderer Trump. Get out of Turkey\u201d. (AP Photo\/Erdem Sahin)<\/p>\n<p>People march during a demonstration against the NATO summit, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Poster in the center reads in Turkish: \u201cMurderer Trump. Get out of Turkey\u201d. (AP Photo\/Erdem Sahin)<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n<p>                            Read More<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcn\u00e7a\u011f Ayd\u0131n, 42, a spokesperson for the leftist Red Party, said that leftist groups faced intense pressure from the government ahead of the summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of our friends have been detained, but we continue to speak out, saying that NATO is a coalition of what we regard as killers and imperialist powers,\u201d Ayd\u0131n insists.<\/p>\n<p>The protest ended peacefully and without arrests. Earlier Tuesday, police broke up a small demonstration in Ankara, where protests were banned during the NATO summit, and arrested about 20 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of protestors from leftist, pro-Palestinian and Kurdish parties in central Istanbul marched against the NATO summit being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4197,57,2246],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","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=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}