Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Trilateral Mecca Defense Pact
7 August 2026 · All day · Political event · Persian Gulf
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a trilateral defense pact known as the "Mecca Pact" in Mecca on Friday, August 7, 2026 (16 Mordad 1405), under which an armed attack on any one of the three states is treated as an attack on all three. The pact was signed amid the US-Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz shipping crisis.
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