Turkey will now contribute to NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced during the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey.According to the Turkish defense outlet SavunmaSanayiST, Erdoğan said on Wednesday, July 8, that Ankara would continue supplying military aid from its own national stockpiles while also participating in the PURL initiative, a mechanism that allows partner countries to finance weapons purchases for Ukraine. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“In addition to the military support we have provided to Ukraine from our own national inventory, we will continue our contributions within the framework of PURL,” Erdoğan said, adding that “while supporting Ukraine, we are also using our communication channels in such a way as to guide Russia toward peace.”Who has joined, and who is still missingFive remaining NATO members – France, Italy, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia – have yet to contribute to PURL, according to the Atlantic Council.The program, created in mid-2025 after Washington scaled back direct arms shipments to Kyiv, lets European states and Canada fund US-made weapons, mainly air-defense systems, for Ukraine. Twenty-six countries have already pledged over $4 billion through the initiative, the Atlantic Council reports. Italy and Turkey have previously pointed to ongoing diplomacy with Moscow as their reason for staying out of PURL, with Turkey now joining the program despite being seen as “tougher to persuade.”So far, Italy still hasn’t changed its stance, citing its own domestic defense spending priorities. “We have said no from the beginning, and it is still a no,” Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said, despite last year’s announcement that Rome was warming up to the idea of taking part in PURL.