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Turkiye submits Pakistan-Saudi defence pact to parliament for ratification, sources say
ANKARA: Turkiye has submitted a defence pact with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to parliament for ratification, three parliamentary sources said on Tuesday, moving NATO’s second-largest army closer to a formal mutual defence pledge with Riyadh as it faces Houthi attacks. The three countries signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement in August, under which an armed attack on one member is considered an attack on all. A joint statement issued when they signed the deal did not specify what each country had committed to. At an emergency meeting of the alliance in Riyadh earlier this month, they agreed ...
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