{"id":708070,"date":"2026-10-07T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=708070"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:04:41","slug":"pakistan-turkey-saudi-arabia-trigger-mecca-defense-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=708070","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, Turkey &#038; Saudi Arabia Trigger Mecca Defense Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Turkey prepares to send\u00a0<strong>troops, air defense systems &amp; aircraft<\/strong>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>In a historic first, the Mecca Defense Pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey <em>is now in force<\/em>, according to the allies at an emergency meeting in Riyadh.<\/h4>\n<p>It was only signed in August, but soon after it was formalized an all-out war between the Houthis and Saudi coalition in Yemen erupted, with the Ansar Allah movement now increasingly targeting Saudi civilian infrastructure, including airports and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Monday emergency meeting of foreign and defense ministers resulted in the top committee agreeing to deploy Pakistani and Turkish forces to Saudi territory. The pact is modeled on NATO&#8217;s Article 5 and &#8216;collective defense&#8217;. Saudi authorities have argued the kingdom is under direct attack from neighboring Yemen and its Houthi rebels, backed by Tehran.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/pakistan-turkey-saudi-arabia-trigger-mecca-defense-pact-houthi-missiles-inbound\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/pakistan-turkey-saudi-arabia-trigger-mecca-defense-pact-houthi-missiles-inbound<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey prepares to send\u00a0troops, air defense systems &amp; aircraft&#8230; In a historic first, the Mecca Defense Pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey is now in force, according to the allies at an emergency meeting in Riyadh. It was only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=708070\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708072,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708070\/revisions\/708072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}