NATO Gathers in Ankara Seeking to Steady the Alliance
NATO’s 32 leaders converge on Ankara for Tuesday and Wednesday’s summit under a sweeping security lockdown, with a draft declaration affirming an “ironclad commitment” to collective defence under Article 5 and European allies preparing a Ukraine military aid package expected to reach €70bn a year. Canada aims to announce around ten founding nations for a global defence bank. Presidents Trump and Zelensky both attend, days after the week’s escalation on both sides of the air war.
The first alliance summit since the Iran war has one question under all the communiqué language: whether American security guarantees still mean what the treaty says, with European capitals aiming to keep disputes over Iran and Greenland off the table and get Trump’s signature on the Article 5 text. The Ukraine file is the concrete test — air-defence supply, the Patriot-licence request, and an aid number big enough to signal endurance. The choice of Ankara gives Turkey’s President Erdogan a hosting role he has already begun using. Watch the final aid figure and any language on Ukraine’s path to membership.