Why Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan signed a defense pact @Foreign-Policy
Why Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan signed a defense pact @Foreign-Policy
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On FP Live, Allison Minor discusses the new Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a pact between Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia to treat an attack on one of them as an attack on all—language that is reminiscent of NATO’s Article 5.

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Why Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan signed a defense pact

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