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 4 days ago
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CIA analysts assessed as "low confidence" the Israeli-relayed intelligence on an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump, which prompted his secret departure from Turkey aboard an alternate military aircraft, WaPo reports.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, eastern Libya, in a rare visit. Turkey has long backed the rival western Libyan government that competes with Haftar.
CBS Report: A possible surface-to-air missile threat prompted Trump to leave last month's NATO Summit in Turkey on a secret plane.
On the secret flight with Trump: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House aides Natalie Harp, Walt Nau...
CBS Report: A possible surface-to-air missile threat prompted Trump to leave last month's NATO Summit in Turkey on a secret plane.
On the secret flight with Trump: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House aides Natalie Harp, Walt Nauta and Dan Scavino.
On the decoy posing as Air Force One: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and aides Stephen Miller, Will Scharf, Steven Cheung, Mike Needham, Ross Worthington and Monica Crowley. Rubio and Bessent were reportedly aware Trump had been moved.
MORE INFO: U.S. intelligence identified a possible surface to air missile threat against Air Force One during Trump’s trip to the NATO summit in Turkey, prompting his return aboard a covert aircraft.
The New York Times claims that a person near the summit was spotted with a shoulder fired missile. U.S. officials also learned that Iran knew where Trump was staying in Ankara, including the floor of his building.
"We have taken on a historic responsibility to help ensure stability in our region. The main goal of the agreement is to strengthen deterrence. It is open to all brotherly nations."
Saudi Arabia opposed including Egypt in the tripartite defense alliance with Pakistan and Turkey, per Middle East Eye. Riyadh is frustrated with President al-Sisi and no longer views Cairo as a strategic asset. Turkey had said Egypt may also join. It marks a shift for bin Salman, who once funded and protected Egypt.
Saudi King Salman: The "Mecca meeting" between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan will help create a framework for a long-term defense partnership between the three countries, as well as address shared regional challenges.
NYT Report: The U.S. carried out a sophisticated ruse to smuggle President Trump out of Turkey during last month's NATO summit. American officials said security personnel transferred him inside a catering container to a military plane over ...
NYT Report: The U.S. carried out a sophisticated ruse to smuggle President Trump out of Turkey during last month's NATO summit. American officials said security personnel transferred him inside a catering container to a military plane over a threat from Iran against him and Air Force One.
Publicly, Trump and other officials said he would leave Turkey on July 8 aboard one of the older versions of Air Force One, rather than the luxury Boeing 747-8 donated by Qatar that he arrived in. Trump told reporters he was switching planes "in memory of the good old days."
He boarded the older plane through the door on its left side, in full view of the cameras. Media outlets reported he flew it to Britain, where he transferred back to the newer plane. The Times had reported at the time that the decision was partly due to safety concerns over the Qatari-donated jet, which did not have all the security features installed on the older versions.
But instead of taking off on the old 747, Trump was secretly removed from it inside a catering container hoisted to the opposite side of the plane, away from where the journalists who flew with him boarded. He was then transferred to a third plane, on which he secretly flew to Britain.
A year and eight months after the IDF declared the Syrian air force destroyed, Israeli defense officials say Syria has significantly accelerated its rebuilding in recent weeks.
In the past day, Syria carried out its first exercise of its k...
A year and eight months after the IDF declared the Syrian air force destroyed, Israeli defense officials say Syria has significantly accelerated its rebuilding in recent weeks.
In the past day, Syria carried out its first exercise of its kind using fighter jets in the north of the country.
Under a-Sharaa, Syria is receiving support from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, France and other states in the region. Despite talk of a future security agreement with Israel, defense officials are tracking developments that could harm Israeli freedom of action over Syrian skies.
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’
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