TRTurkish ministers, including Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, and Chief of General Staff Gen. Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, will host representatives from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in Istanbul for the first meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee established under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement. Signed in August in Saudi Arabia, this agreement expands the existing Saudi-Pakistani alliance to include Turkey and aims to promote defense collaboration, joint production, and counterterrorism efforts. The pact includes a mutual defense clause, where an attack on one signatory is treated as an attack on all. While the agreement does not explicitly target any specific country, it seeks to act as a deterrent against external threats. Turkey emphasized that the alliance is open to expansion and does not aim to replace existing partnerships like NATO.
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