Türkiye’s foreign ministry announced on 4 October that the Strategic Political and Defence Committee established under the Makkah Agreement for Joint Defence would meet in Riyadh on 5 October. It named Türkiye’s foreign minister, defence minister and chief of the general staff, alongside officials from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The ministry said the agenda covered regional developments and progress in establishing the alliance’s institutions. The announcement confirms the planned consultation; it does not report an agreed military deployment, an operational decision or an outcome from the meeting.
For Iraqi readers, any subsequent communiqué will matter more than assumptions about what a defence pact automatically requires. The reviewed announcement gives no Iraqi role or obligation. Its significance is the existence of a regional consultation mechanism whose decisions can be followed separately from battlefield claims.