Pouriya Angosht Baft| Geopolitical researcher PhD. Student, University of Tehran
📍On August 7, 2026, in the holy city of Mecca, a venue sacred to the Islamic world, an event unfolded which many political and military observers have since deemed a watershed moment in the history of regional security. At the Al-Safa Palace, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan signed a document that became known as the “Joint Mecca Defense Pact,” or, for short, the “Mecca Pact.”
🔶The fundamental question that this memorandum seeks to address is: what impact will the Mecca Pact, as a trilateral defense agreement among Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, have on the regional security architecture, and along what trajectory can the future of this accord be charted?
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