Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan Unite Against Regional Threats
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has clarified that the recently signed defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey is not aimed at any specific country, including Iran.
The 'Mecca Joint Defense Agreement' was signed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the holy city of Mecca on Friday. The agreement states that an attack on one of the three countries would be considered an attack on all three.
The pact brings together oil-rich Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan with Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army and a rapidly growing defense industry. Fidan emphasized that the agreement is not aimed at any particular state unless they take hostile action against them.
'We don't have anything written down, nothing we've signed, that defines a common threat,' Fidan said in an interview with Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.