The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement—the pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed in August— has been described inaccurately by Andrew Korybko and others as “the Muslim NATO”. This is nonsense, since its orientation and its rationale have little to do with Russia. Tariq Ali has described it as an anti-Houthi alliance. George Friedman, more … Continue reading Some Thoughts On The Mecca Agreement
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The Middle East Cauldron!
The Growing Israeli/Turkish Rivalry Might Soon Expand Into Jordan! Turkiye, Syria, and Jordan signed a trilateral MoU in early April on transport cooperation that followed their meeting more than half a year prior last September where they first committed to reviving the Hejaz Railway. This late-Ottoman project connected Istanbul with Medina and Mecca but collapsed … Continue reading The Middle East Cauldron!
Israel, Türkiye And Cyprus
The Cyprus dispute goes back to the early 1960s, when the Greek Cypriots started to gradually erode the constitutional rights of the Turkish community on the Island. There were a series of pogroms and massacres of the Turkish population. The fascist coup in Cyprus, aimed at annexation of the island by Greece, led to Turkish military intervention in 1974, … Continue reading Israel, Türkiye And Cyprus
