The NATO Summit in Ankara should not be read only through defence budgets and the 5% of GDP commitment, but as a moment in which strategic geography returns to the centre of the Alliance. Turkey forces NATO to view security through the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus and the Middle East. For Romania, the stake is direct: Black Sea security cannot be understood without Ankara’s role, military mobility, infrastructure, air defence and real allied coordination.