By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The developments of the past several years, which began with October 7 and continued with the US-Iran war, have reached a point where they can no longer be interpreted merely as a conflict dynamic. Indeed, although these conflicts have their own internal balances, they have, in general, triggered the beginning of a fundamental transformation. While ...
A few days ago, at Al-Safa Palace in Mecca, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a document titled the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.” Its core clause stipulates that an armed attack on any of the three signatory states is deemed an attack on them all—a formulation that, according ...