Reaction from NEW Party member Murat Emir to the Mecca Agreement: 'It will drag Turkey into a hot conflict'

NEW Party Group Deputy Chairman Murat Emir said, "With the Mecca Agreement, the government is starting a fire that will leave Turkey face to face with a new Syria danger and drag it into a direct conflict with Iran and the Houthis. The main duty of the Turkish Armed Forces is to protect Turkey's own skies and borders, and we will hold accountable all the dark points of this agreement one by one on the floor of the Turkish Grand National Assembly."

Emir made the following statements in his statement on his social media account:

"I openly warn our people, the government is taking action with the Mecca Agreement, which will leave Turkey face to face with a new Syrian danger and drag it into a direct conflict with Iran and the Houthis. While Article 2 of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed by the government makes Türkiye a partner in an open-ended and major war, Article 16 says that we cannot get out of this obligation for 10 years. Do not hide behind the excuse of 'we are only sending planes for defense purposes'. This agreement is anti-USA or anti-Israeli." It is not a bloc; on the contrary, it is a project to transfer Washington's military burden in the Gulf to the countries of the region and to put the cost of protecting Saudi Arabia's energy facilities against Iran and the Houthis on the shoulders of the Turkish Armed Forces. Britain is financing its own defense industry by sending the Eurofighter planes that we have been waiting for to add to our inventory for years.

France maintains only a single oil terminal. Greece, which is taking up arms against us in the Aegean, is renting Patriots to Riyadh. Egypt, on the other hand, is taking the issue to its own parliament without even signing the agreement or tying its hands. So what is the government doing? By completely disabling the Turkish Grand National Assembly, it puts Türkiye under a unilateral obligation that is even more severe than NATO's Article 5. Article 8 establishes a Secretariat headquartered in Saudi Arabia, but the text does not even include the right to veto an operation in which Türkiye does not want to participate. With this assignment, which will start with the title 'defense', you are, on the one hand, setting Türkiye in a direct confrontation with Iran, and on the other hand, you are making Turkish merchant ships in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb and the Turkish military presence in Somalia on the Houthi-Al-Shabaab line an open target. "The primary duty of the Turkish Armed Forces is to protect Turkey's own skies and borders, and we will hold accountable all the dark points of this agreement one by one on the floor of the Turkish Grand National Assembly."