Mecca Joint Defense Agreement
17 AUGUST 2026
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a historic agreement in Mecca on August 7. As the Middle East undergoes its biggest strategic realignment in decades, the pact is technically viewed as an equivalent to Nato's Article 5: where an attack on one could be treated as an attack on all.

























































































































