Turkish FM Fidan signals openness to expanding Mecca defense alliance

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the Mecca Defense Alliance, a mutual-defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that Türkiye's parliament ratified on 5 November with 279 votes, remains open to other countries that share its members' vision of "regional solutions to regional problems." The pact invokes Article 51 of the UN Charter, treating an attack on any signatory as an attack on all three.

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