Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed a mutual defence pact that treats an attack on any one of them as an attack on all three, formalising a security partnership between three of the Muslim world's most powerful militaries.
The agreement, named the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, was signed on 7 August by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, according to a joint statement published by the Saudi Press Agency and Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
