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09.10.26 - 13:42
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Turkey Industrial Output Falls 1.9% (AFX)
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ANKARA (dpa-AFX) - Turkey's industrial production declined in August due to the contraction in manufacturing output, the Turkish Statistical Institute said Friday.Industrial production fell 1.9 pe......
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09.10.26 - 11:42
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Turkey Rules Out Launching Attacks On Yemen From Saudi Arabia (ZeroHedge)
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Turkey Rules Out Launching Attacks On Yemen From Saudi Arabia
Via Middle East Eye
Turkey will not send troops to Saudi Arabia to launch attacks on Yemen under the Mecca defense pact, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday.
"This is not an offensive agreement. Turkey will not send troops to another country's territory to launch an attack there," he said during a live press conference in Ankara. Fidan added that possible Turkish deployments to Saudi Arabia would be only defensive in nature.
via APTurkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan agreed this week to jointly deploy forces and military equipment in a show of solidarity with Riyadh in the face of Houthi attacks from Yemen.
Fidan said military delegations would assess Saudi Arabia's operational defense needs and determine what contributions Turkey and Pakistan could make.
“The necessary work to submit the Mecca agreement to the Turkish parliament has been concluded,” he said. “We have decided to forward it to parli...
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07.10.26 - 15:54
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Pakistan, Turkey & Saudi Arabia Trigger Mecca Defense Pact (ZeroHedge)
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Pakistan, Turkey & Saudi Arabia Trigger Mecca Defense Pact
In a historic first, the Mecca Defense Pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey is now in force, according to the allies at an emergency meeting in Riyadh.
It was only signed in August, but soon after it was formalized an all-out war between the Houthis and Saudi coalition in Yemen erupted, with the Ansar Allah movement now increasingly targeting Saudi civilian infrastructure, including airports and energy infrastructure.
The Monday emergency meeting of foreign and defense ministers resulted in the top committee agreeing to deploy Pakistani and Turkish forces to Saudi territory. The pact is modeled on NATO's Article 5 and 'collective defense'. Saudi authorities have argued the kingdom is under direct attack from neighboring Yemen and its Houthi rebels, backed by Tehran.
via Anadolu AgencyIt marks a quite a dramatic, though somewhat anticipated step, but it remains an open question the degree to which the external troops will d...
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