By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO will hold its annual summit in Ankara next month. Founded during the Cold War era to counter the Soviet Bloc, the organization aimed to fight communism externally and to control European countries internally by the USA. Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union (even though its so-called reason for existence disappeared), it ...
The 2026 NATO Summit will be held on 7 and 8 July 2026 at the Beştepe Presidential Compound (Külliye) in Ankara. As NATO heads into the 2026 summit, we have prepared a special dossier that revisits Türkiye’s long and often contentious relationship with the alliance that began with the country’s membership in 1952. Drawing on articles and interviews from across ...
By Yunus Emre Özgün As the July 2026 NATO Summit approaches amidst a structural crisis of Western hegemony and the erosion of global legal norms, renowned peace and security scholar Prof. Dr. Biljana Vankovska dissects the “Siamese twins” of NATO and the EU, the securitization of the Balkans, and the tragic paralysis of international law in Gaza. The global geopolitical ...