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NATO Summit Fractures: Erdoğan Gets Jets, Europe Gets a Lecture

European defense firms, including Airbus, arrived in Ankara for the NATO Industrial Forum with billion-euro contracts on the table.

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NATO Summit Fractures: Erdoğan Gets Jets, Europe Gets a Lecture

Donald Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and departed from the diplomatic script almost immediately, reviving grievances over Greenland, Ukrainian policy, and European energy dependence while reserving his warmth for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to Politico Europe. The prospect of Washington selling Ankara advanced fighter jets — a proposal Trump floated publicly — landed as a signal to European allies that the alliance's internal geometry is shifting in ways that formal communiqués will not capture.

The timing matters. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used the summit's margins to press NATO members directly for expanded air defense support, warning that current Patriot production rates are insufficient and calling for mass-produced anti-ballistic systems to be built now. The gap between what Kyiv needs and what the alliance is willing to commit remains the summit's unresolved core.

Meanwhile, the death of a Ukrainian suspect connected to the Monaco attack — found near Kyiv as two individuals including a military intelligence officer faced arrest — added an unresolved thread to proceedings that no official statement addressed cleanly.

European defense firms, including Airbus, arrived in Ankara for the NATO Industrial Forum with billion-euro contracts on the table. The business of the alliance continued regardless. It usually does.

What the summit produced in paper commitments, and what it revealed in tone, are two separate documents — and European capitals are already reading the second one more carefully.

Editor's Note
The part no one's saying out loud: when the most predictable man in the room is also the most dangerous one, that's not chaos — that's a strategy.
Isla Camilleri
Isla Camilleri
Global Affairs & Lifestyle Editor
Isla Camilleri lost her mother at four, grew up in every city her diplomat father was posted to, married at 22 and left at 23, and came back to Malta to open a café-boutique in Valletta that sells couture and coffee to people who understand both. She covers the world the way someone searches for something — thoroughly, and without quite finding it.
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Ilhan Irem Yuce
Edited by Ilhan Irem Yuce · Chief Editor, News Beast