Turkey Set to Join Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact, Binding NATO's Second-Largest Army to Gulf Mutual Defence

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan are set to sign a trilateral defence pact in Jeddah on August 7, 2026, per Saudi military and Turkish intelligence sources. The pact would extend a Saudi-Pakistani mutual-defence treaty—treating an attack on one as an attack on all—to include Turkey, a NATO member with the alliance's second-largest standing army. How these new obligations interact with Turkey's NATO commitments remains unresolved.