Eroğan hails Ankara NATO summit as historic success
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 8 that the NATO summit in Ankara had been completed successfully, describing the gathering as a historic meeting that would help shape the alliance’s future at a time of growing Euro-Atlantic security challenges.
“We have just successfully completed the NATO summit, which we organized in our country after 22 years and in Ankara for the first time,” Erdoğan said, speaking after the summit.
“At a time when Euro-Atlantic security is being tested, this historic summit we hosted was held in a manner that will guide our common future,” he added.
Erdoğan said the Ankara summit had laid the foundations for a stronger NATO in which European allies would assume more responsibility and the alliance’s military capacity would be reinforced through fair burden-sharing.
