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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that Turkey is evaluating how it can assist Saudi Arabia in defending against attacks from Yemen’s Houthis under the Makkah defence pact signed on August 7 with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The agreement aims to strengthen collective security, and Turkish officials are currently working out potential contributions, particularly in air defense. Fidan emphasized that the pact is strictly defensive and does not involve offensive operations or troop deployment in other countries’ territories.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-08,
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same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
On October 5, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar stated that a meeting of the Makkah Defence Alliance’s Strategic Political and Defence Committee (SPDC) would take place in Riyadh to address Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. The SPDC, established under the trilateral "Makkah Accord" involving Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, met with representatives from all three countries present: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir for Pakistan; Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler, and Chief of General Staff Selcuk Bayraktaroglu for Turkey; and their Saudi counterparts. At the meeting, it was decided to deploy military forces rapidly in Saudi Arabia to enhance readiness against threats, particularly following recent attacks on holy sites like Mecca and Medina by the Houthi group.
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Turkiye is assessing how it can help Saudi Arabia counter attacks from Yemen’s Houthis under the Makkah defence pact signed between Islamabad, Riyadh and Istanbul, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday.
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Fidan → assess → Thursday
The defence pact, signed on Aug 7, aims to strengthen collective deterrence and empower its signatory states to treat an attack against one of them as an attack against all of them.
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pact → sign → them
“The technical evaluations are [being] carried out, and these continue among our military officials,” Fidan said during a joint press conference in Ankara with his Hungarian counterpart, adding that officials were working out what contributions could be made, particularly on air defence.
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contributions → carry → defence
Ankara’s top diplomat also stressed that the pact was a defensive agreement, not an offensive one.
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pact → stress → ?
“When a country of this agreement is attacked, you have to side with them,” Fidan stated.
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Fidan → attack → them
Turkiye is not carrying out an attack by sending troops to another country’s land.”
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Turkiye → carry → land
The Turkish foreign minister added that the process of sending the text of the agreement to the Turkish parliament for ratification had been finalised.
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process → add → ratification
Fidan’s remarks came after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye on Monday agreed to the deployment of military forces and capabilities rapidly in the kingdom during an emergency meeting of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement in Riyadh.
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Pakistan → come → Riyadh
The emergency meeting of the alliance’s Strategic Political and Defence Committee addressed the security developments and threats facing Saudi Arabia.
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meeting → address → Arabia
“The committee decided to move immediately to the practical implementation of the collective defence commitments and to take the necessary measures to provide the agreed military forces and capabilities and ensure their rapid deployment in the kingdom, in accordance with the approved arrangements and the national legislation of the parties, thereby enhancing readiness, military integration, and the collective capacity to confront and counter threats,” a statement issued by the Foreign Office after the meeting said.
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statement → decide → meeting
While the statement did not specifically name any threat, the development comes against the backdrop of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia in the Yemen conflict.
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development → name → conflict
A day prior, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told CNN that Pakistani troops were already in Saudi Arabia, adding that they had been in the kingdom “for decades” and across multiple domains.
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they → tell → domains
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has also described the agreement as defensive, without an offensive agenda.
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Dar → describe → agenda
Meanwhile, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said Pakistani and Turkish forces would play a supporting role, including reconnaissance, while Saudi forces conduct combat operations.
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forces → say → operations
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