Media center set up in Ankara to serve 2,500 journalists for NATO Summit
The Presidency's Directorate of Communications has prepared an international media center at the Nation's Library for the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit to be held in Ankara on July 7-8. The center will serve approximately 2,500 members of the press from around the world.
The Presidency's Directorate of Communications has established a comprehensive international media center for members of the press who will cover the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit to be held in Ankara on July 7-8.
The center, which will operate at the Nation's Library within the Presidential Complex, will host approximately 2,500 journalists, television crews, photojournalists, digital media representatives, and employees of international broadcasting organizations from various countries around the world.
Media center's technical infrastructure
The international media center is equipped with 1,800 workstations, 40 editing rooms, and more than 100 live broadcast points, 54 of which are fixed. The center also features 11 press conference halls, the largest with a capacity of 500 people.
Among the facilities available to journalists are interview areas, studios, audio mixing devices, directional boards, and announcement and broadcast screens. The planning and infrastructure work for the center was completed in coordination with the Presidency's Directorate of Administrative Affairs.
TRT to broadcast with 96 cameras
Throughout the summit, the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) will broadcast the summit's developments to the world via 96 cameras, 18 live broadcast vehicles, and 26 different broadcast points.
As part of the summit, a special task force was also established to carry out media and broadcasting activities, accreditation procedures, promotion and communication efforts, crisis communication, and public diplomacy practices within NATO.
Second time hosting after 22 years
Türkiye is hosting the alliance's leaders' summit for the second time, 22 years after the NATO summit held in Istanbul in 2004.
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