Decoding real scope of Saudi, Turkey, and Pakistan’s Mecca pact: New ‘NATO of East?’

What has grabbed eyeballs about Mecca pact of Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia is its promise: armed attack on one will be treated as an attack against all.

NATO was created to provide clarity in moments of crisis. It now faces a question its founders never anticipated.

"Very happy to see that Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have recently, and finally, signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement," he wrote on his Truth Social.

Trump hails Mecca Agreement as "big and bold step"US President Donald Trump on Sunday threw his weight behind the newly signed Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, calling it a “big, bold, and important first step”.The pact, signed on August 7, has brought the three major Islamic nat

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he was pleased by the recent signing of a defense pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he was pleased Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan have taken a “BIG, BOLD, IMPORTANT FIRST STEP” by entering a defence agreement together.

Trump hails Saudi-Turkiye-Pakistan defence pact US President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he is "Very happy to see that Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have recently, and finally, signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement." He said the deal “shows how the Middle East is coming together, and how Cou

The significance of the Mecca pact will depend less on the language of the agreement than on its implementation.

THE Mecca pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan — which Egypt is now being wooed to join — is a sign that for all Donald Trump’s bluster, the decline of US power continues. Indeed, he is accelerating it, at least in the Middle East (the continuing advance of far-right politics in Latin America suggests a diffe

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed the Mecca Joint Defence Pact, a new collective defence arrangement that connects the Middle East with South Asia. Its central promise is striking: an armed attack against any one of the three countries will be treated as an attack against them all. This language has prompte

Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan pressed Egypt to join the mutual-defence pact signed in Makkah on 7 August. Cairo says the commitments require detailed study.

Erdogan says Egypt could join Turkiye-Saudi-Pakistan defense pact  Arab News

Turkish president tells Al Jazeera that the recently signed agreement is open to new members as he pledges continued support.

Russia is confounding expectations that its influence in the Middle East would drastically decline after the downfall of Syria’s Assad regime in 2024. At the time, Moscow operated about 100 military facilities in the war-torn country, following its intervention in the Syrian civil conflict from 2015 to prop up then pre

The expansion of strategic ambitions by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and the UAE into Africa show just how quickly global forces are shifting.

Analysis • Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan bloc may bring Iran closer to a diplomatic deal  Haaretz

PM Shehbaz briefs President Zardari on Pak-Saudi-Turkiye defence pact  dawn.com

The trilateral deal signed last week stipulates that an attack on any of the three states will be treated as an attack on all.