Türkiye is a transcontinental country spanning West Asia and Southeast Europe. Known for its strategic NATO membership, assertive foreign policy under Erdogan, and role as a regional power balancing Western alliances with independent engagement across the Middle East. Recently, Türkiye has deepened defense ties with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, mediated U.S.-Iran diplomacy, and intensified its rivalry with Israel. Last updated 1 day ago
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Pakistan's Foreign Minister on the new defense pact with Turkey and Saudi Arabia: "The agreement is defensive and is not directed against any country. Its purpose is to strengthen security cooperation and joint deterrence."
Iran's FM Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on the Mecca Agreement:
There is no reason for us to be concerned that this pact between the two neighboring countries of Türkiye and Pakistan, as well as Saudi Arabia--three countries with which we sh...
Iran's FM Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on the Mecca Agreement:
There is no reason for us to be concerned that this pact between the two neighboring countries of Türkiye and Pakistan, as well as Saudi Arabia--three countries with which we share deep religious, historical, and civilizational bonds -- is directed against Iran.
The history of friendship between the nations of Türkiye and Pakistan, as two neighboring Muslim countries, is long-standing.
This development is an important sign [of a shift in regional perceptions].
The Mecca Alliance is a very dangerous and very troubling development.
Saudi Arabia was essentially sitting on the fence. It already had a defense agreement with Pakistan, but the moment i...
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:
The Mecca Alliance is a very dangerous and very troubling development.
Saudi Arabia was essentially sitting on the fence. It already had a defense agreement with Pakistan, but the moment it goes with the Turks—who are in a direct confrontation with us, one that could develop to dimensions that may have extremely serious consequences, both in the Mediterranean and on the Syrian front, this is a development that is very, very bad for us, for Israel.
It requires us to deepen our alliances with Greece and Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, and Somaliland.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Russia-Ukraine:
When the war of attrition at the front turns into attrition behind the front lines, the issue becomes a matter of whether or not you will continue to exist as a nation. You use whatev...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Russia-Ukraine:
When the war of attrition at the front turns into attrition behind the front lines, the issue becomes a matter of whether or not you will continue to exist as a nation. You use whatever last resort you have at your disposal.
If the destruction reaches that level, Russia may resort to the final option at its disposal. During my visit to Russia, it seemed that this issue might come up as well, because it was said that the public is now demanding such a thing.
This is a dangerous situation. Everything people say will not happen ends up happening.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. An attack on one is now an attack on all three. Riyadh lit its landmarks in the three flags.
Turkey will hand Ukraine a major surplus rocket artillery package. The deal covers 12 M270 MLRS launchers, 70 ATACMS missiles, 2,500 M26 DPICM cluster rockets and 47,000 203mm DPICM shells.
Vessels headed for Russia's Novorossiysk hub are being denied or held up on transit permits through the Dardanelles Strait, as Turkey tightens commercial shipping into the Black Sea following a rise in Russian and Ukrainian attacks on ships there.
Houthi PM Mahdi Almshat responds to the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defense alliance signed today: the agreements do not apply retroactively, and the "blockade for blockade" equation will continue until its goals are met.
Anyone backing what he called Saudi Arabia's 12-year aggression and blockade is "an aggressor - even if he wraps the matter in flashy headlines."
Iran's Ibrahim Rezaii: ‘Saudis must know that a paper agreement with Turkey and Pakistan will not bring them security, just as years of one-sided nursing to the Americans did not bring them security. Reform your policies so that you do not need to beg for security from others’
Amid the crisis between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is working to establish a parallel axis. Potential partners named include Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Egypt and Pakistan.
A Turkish official says the newly signed Mecca Agreement between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is defensive in nature and pledges mutual support only for defense purposes.
The official says it targets no specific actor and stays open to other regional countries.
Erdogan is working to reshape the Kurdish arena across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. His party this week put forward a bill to dismantle the Kurdish underground in return for partial amnesty for some of its members.
At a meeting in Turkey, Erdogan advised Lebanese President Joseph Aoun against rushing into any agreement with Israel, claiming Israel has no interest in peace with anyone. He urged Aoun to strengthen ties with Syria and to visit Damascus, and offered to deploy Turkish forces to southern Lebanon once UNIFIL's mandate ends.
Reported by Lebanese outlet Al-Akhbar, affiliated with Hezbollah.
Egypt, Qatar and Turkey are pressuring Hamas to sign the deal now in its final stages, which includes disarmament, a foreign source involved in the talks tells Kann News. Egypt is applying the heaviest pressure of the three. The message to Hamas: you have no better alternative.
