# Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan hold first Mecca defence pact meeting

https://mins.news/en/item/38656

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-31 11:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/31/turkiye-saudi-arabia-pakistan-hold-first-mecca-defence-pact-meeting?traffic_source=rss

> Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are meeting in Istanbul for the first time since signing the Mecca Defence Agreement. The pact aims to strengthen collective deterrence against aggression and treats an armed attack on any one of the three countries as an attack on all three.

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