summit<\/a> hosted by T\u00fcrkiye on July 7-8 in Ankara.<\/p>\n\u201cWe successfully held the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit hosted by T\u00fcrkiye,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n
He said leaders of all 32 allied countries attended the summit at the Presidential Complex, along with ministers, delegates, representatives of international organizations and invited guests.<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan said NATO\u2019s Asia-Pacific partners South Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia, as well as the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative partners Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, also attended at the level of heads of state or ministers.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa visited Ankara on July 8 for bilateral talks, he added.<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan thanked Ankara residents for their patience during the summit, saying the capital had hosted a major international meeting successfully.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnkara has increased its international visibility more than ever by hosting a historic summit with historic success,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said T\u00fcrkiye had used the summit to present its positions on regional and global issues, including Gaza, Lebanon and the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan said T\u00fcrkiye had underlined the need to remove obstacles and restrictions on defense industry cooperation among allies.<\/p>\n
He also noted that a Defense Industry Forum was held for the first time as one of the summit\u2019s main events, with nearly 1,000 participants and members of the press attending.<\/p>\n
A center of excellence on countering unmanned systems will be established in Konya, Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cT\u00fcrkiye, with its military capability, strategic location, diplomatic experience and defense industry capacity, is at the very center of this transformation as one of NATO\u2019s strongest actors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan also commented on U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to T\u00fcrkiye, describing it as significant because it was the first official visit by a U.S. president to T\u00fcrkiye at the head-of-state level in 17 years.<\/p>\n
He said Ankara would continue to work with Washington to strengthen bilateral relations, reach the $100 billion trade target and support peace and stability in the region.<\/p>\n
The president also announced new steps to support industry and manufacturing.<\/p>\n
He said the government had reduced the corporate tax rate for the manufacturing sector to 12.5 percent and raised the daily volume of rediscount credits offered to exporters to 5 billion liras.<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan said a 100 billion lira credit package had already been introduced for manufacturing sectors.<\/p>\n
He announced that the budget of the Investment Committed Advance Loan Program would be increased to 750 billion liras.<\/p>\n
The government will also offer a 250 billion lira credit package for the manufacturing industry under favorable conditions, he said.<\/p>\n
The loans will have a grace period of six months and maturities of up to 36 months, with the government covering 12 points of the financing cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith these two programs, we are opening the way for a total of 1 trillion liras in favorable financing for the manufacturing industry,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA \u00a0 President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has said T\u00fcrkiye stands at the center of NATO\u2019s transformation, citing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2336,7,137,337],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-erdogan","tag-nato","tag-summit","tag-trkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","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=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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