NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that the 2026 NATO summit will take place on July 7 and 8 at the Beştepe presidential compound in Ankara.
Rutte thanked Turkey for hosting and said leaders will continue work to make NATO “a stronger, fairer and more lethal Alliance, ready to respond to the critical challenges to our security.”
It will be the second time that Turkey hosts a NATO summit, with allied leaders meeting in İstanbul in 2004.
NATO summits bring together heads of state and government to decide alliance priorities. Allies last met in The Hague in June, where leaders backed a plan to raise defense and security spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product by 2035.
Turkey has been a NATO member since 1952.