🔴 𝗕𝗕𝗖 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗧ü𝗿𝗸ç𝗲 (İngiltere) 𝟳 𝗔ğ𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: "Türkiye, Suudi Arabistan ve Pakistan savunma anlaşması imzaladı" + 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 (Israel) 𝟳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: "Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan sign major defense pact amid Iran tensions" 🔴
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Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan sign major defense pact amid Iran tensions
The agreement says that any armed attack on any one of the three countries will be regarded as an attack against them all.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, Pakistan's foreign ministry said, as the three countries sought to deepen security cooperation amid heightened military tensions and conflicts in the Middle East.
The agreement says that any armed attack on any one of the three countries will be regarded as an attack against them all, the statement from the ministry said.
The move marks a significant step in efforts by the three regional powers to deepen security cooperation amid growing tensions and the ongoing war between the United States and Iran.
A Turkish official told Reuters that the agreement was defensive in nature, was not directed against any specific actor, was open to other regional countries, and did not abrogate or replace any existing bilateral or multilateral arrangements.
A source close to the Saudi government and military, speaking anonymously to Agence France Presse (AFP), said that "the agreement has been under discussion for a long time, but recent developments in the region accelerated the process." Two additional regional sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed the planned timetable to Reuters.
The closely watched summit brought together Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Erdogan departed Ankara on Friday morning for a brief working visit, accompanied by senior Turkish officials. Sharif and Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Asim Munir, arrived in Saudi Arabia a day earlier, landing on Thursday and received at Jeddah airport by the deputy governor of the Mecca region.
Defense agreement goes 'beyond short-term considerations'
A spokesperson for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry stressed that, despite tensions in the Gulf, the visit has "significance that goes beyond the immediate crisis and short-term considerations."
According to a report from Turkiye Today, the agreement was a natural development in the increasingly close ties among the three countries, which are now drawing international attention.
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a joint defense pact last year, a move that attracted considerable attention because of Pakistan's status as the only Muslim country possessing nuclear weapons. Turkey, meanwhile, has recently played an active diplomatic role in efforts to end the war in Gaza and, in late July, became one of 14 founding members of a Riyadh-led maritime defense coalition.
The closer ties among the three countries come at an especially turbulent time in the Middle East. The war between Washington and Tehran has drawn Gulf states into the conflict and caused severe disruptions to maritime trade routes through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.
The trilateral defense alliance, combining Saudi Arabia's economic power, Turkey's military strength, and Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, could reshape the regional balance of deterrence and serve as a significant counterweight to Iran on the international stage.
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To be expected. When Netanyahu sides with Greece, the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus and India trying to form a de facto military alliance against Türkiye, the Turks can hardly be expected to remain idle onlookers. The concerning aspect of this escalation on both sides is how reminiscent it is of the geopolitical alliances that led to both World Wars.
Something for Netanyahu and his "Greater Israel" religious extremists to keep in mind:
"... whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - Galatians 6:7, KJV.
In Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's own words:
"In an interview for the documentary, In Israel: Ministers of Chaos, produced by European public service channel, Arte, Smotrich claimed that Israel would expand 'little by little' and eventually encompass all Palestinian territories as well as Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
'It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus,' he said, citing the 'greater Israel' ideology, which envisions the expansion of the state across the Middle East."
Source: UK based Middle East Monitor, 11 October 2024 article titled "Bezalel Smotrich calls for Israel's borders to extend to Damascus".
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"Southern Cyprus", you mean the part that Turkey hasn't invaded yet?
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I mean the 63% of the island currently ruled by Greek Cypriots without a single Turkish Cypriot in their government and still waving Greek flags along with the Cypriot flag in hopes of joining the island with Greece, their ENOSIS dream. Which is what had led to Türkiye's 1974 intervention pursuant to its legal right under the 1961 Treaty of Guarantee as a guarantor power following a coup led by Greek officers then in charge of the Cypriot National Guard which overthrew the elected government seeking to illegally assimilate the island with Greece. That "Southern Cyprus".