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Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign a joint defense pact

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The president of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, and the prime minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, accompanied by their ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense, after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The president of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan; the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, and the prime minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, accompanied by their foreign and defense ministers, after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO / Reuters
07/08/2026 - 15:19 h.
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Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a trilateral defense agreement this Friday in the holy city of Mecca to strengthen "collective deterrence," which stipulates that any attack against any of these countries will be considered an aggression "against all of them".

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