Ankara approved the Makkah Agreement. The next thing is to send troops?
The 16-point Mecca Mutual Defense Agreement uniting Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a military alliance was approved by Turkey's Grand National Assembly. Therefore, all three countries have completed the internal approval procedures necessary for the agreement to enter into force.
Ankara, which has been pursuing a policy of "regional responsibility" in recent years, always emphasizes that the problems of the region should be solved by the initiatives of the regional countries themselves. The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has stated in past speeches regarding conflicts in the Middle East that outside forces intervene due to the fact that the countries of the region do not solve their problems, which end up only getting worse. During the discussion of the agreement in the parliament, the deputy foreign minister of Turkey, Levant Gümârükçü, also said that the Mechanical Union was created in order to take on the solution of the region's problems.
"At a time when the problems of our region are becoming even more complex, the three countries participating in the agreement, instead of waiting for solutions to these problems from the outside, took responsibility and took the first step towards a regional security architecture," said Gümârükçü, who revealed the philosophy behind the creation of the mechanical union.
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