Türkiye and France have signed a Defense Cooperation Roadmap aimed at strengthening bilateral defense ties and strategic dialogue. The roadmap is expected to deepen cooperation, build on recent talks between the two countries’ leaders, and give new momentum to Türkiye-France defense relations.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis: Let me share my vision for the next 10, 20 years. What I would like to see is a treaty between Greece and Türkiye whereby we commit to non-aggression between the countries, whereby we commit, as I said before, to not drilling the bottom of the sea anywhere, developing alongside with other countries in the region a peaceful agenda for renewable energy and joining forces to end apartheid and genocide in Palestine.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan defended the Mecca Alliance against criticism that Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia were its “first test.” Fidan compared it to NATO, asking former U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye James Jeffrey how many times NATO’s Article 5 had been invoked. After Jeffrey answered “only once,” Fidan said it was unfair to judge a new defense alliance using a 10-year conflict as evidence that it does not work. “Nobody criticizes NATO as a paper tiger. But when it comes to a newborn defense alliance, they point to a 10-year crisis in Yemen and say, ‘Look, this is not working.’ We have only just started.”