Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have signed a major, NATO-style, mutual defense agreement in Mecca, creating a new security framework among three of the Muslim world’s most influential military and political powers at a time of rapidly escalating regional instability.
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was signed on Friday by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, according to various reports across the international press. The ceremony took place in Islam’s holiest city, giving the pact particularly heavy symbolic weight as well as strategic significance.
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