
Chief of General Staff, General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, attended the high-level meeting held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, within the scope of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed between Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, together with the Commander of the Pakistan Defense Forces and Land Forces, Marshal Syed Asim Munir, and the Chief of General Staff of Saudi Arabia, General Fayyadh Bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili.
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Türkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are developing coordination on military cooperation and regional security within the framework of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.
Chief of General Staff, General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, attended the high-level meeting within the scope of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
In the statement made on the virtual media account of the Turkish Armed Forces, it was stated that "Chief of General Staff General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu attended the meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within the scope of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed between Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, together with the Commander of the Pakistan Defense Forces and Land Forces, Marshal Syed Asim Munir, and the Chief of General Staff of Saudi Arabia, General Fayyadh Bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili."
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