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Foreign Affairs What the Mecca Defense Pact Means The agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan may herald a new Middle East. On August 7, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in the holy city of Mecca to sign a new trilateral defense pact . The birth of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is a significant geopolitical event. It brings together into a security alliance three of the largest and most influential countries in the Middle East. Turkey has the second-largest army in NATO. Pakistan is the only Muslim nation to possess a…Open
AI:Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, establishing a massive new security alliance that includes NATO's second-largest military power and Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. This strategic pact functions similarly to NATO's Article 5, declaring that an attack on one signatory is considered an attack against all three, signaling a major shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics as regional powers seek to diversify their security needs away from Washington. As Gulf nations feel increasingly abandoned by the U.S. amidst ongoing tensions with Iran, this "Islamic NATO" aims to create a self-reliant regional architecture that could eventually expand to include other nations like Egypt.Open