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Erdogan warns EU against excluding non-EU NATO allies from defence plans
The Turkish president said leaving countries such as Turkey outside Europe’s defence initiatives would waste limited resources and create an “artificial division” on the continent

Bloomberg: NATO weighs cancelling 2027 Albania summit amid fears of fresh Trump clash
The alliance is reportedly considering scrapping or postponing the meeting, partly because Albania remains among NATO’s lower defence spenders and officials fear another confrontation with the US president

39-year-old woman found murdered near Kyiv had returned to Ukraine to collect €130,000 bounty over Monaco bombing
Investigators are examining evidence from the basement of one of the suspects, which has raised the possibility that Anastasia Berezovska may have been tortured, as well as the final video showing her before allegedly detonating the bomb targeting Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev
NATO leaders gathered for summit: The commemorative photo
The summit agenda in Ankara is packed, with developments in Ukraine and Iran, as well as member states’ defence spending, expected to dominate discussions

Trump praises Erdogan in Ankara and signals support for F-35 talks as Iran ceasefire unravels
The U.S. president said he was “very disappointed” with NATO over Iran and Greenland, while again praising Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan

New Middle East flare-up: U.S. strikes 80 Iranian targets as air raid sirens sound in Bahrain and Kuwait
CENTCOM said it struck Iranian air defence systems, missile assets and Revolutionary Guard vessels, while Tehran claimed it retaliated by targeting dozens of U.S. military facilities across Gulf states

Turkey and UK sign a defense agreement, modeled after the Greek-French one
According to Middle East Eye, like the Greek-French agreement, it includes a mutual defense assistance clause


