{"id":4380,"date":"2026-11-13T22:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:03:44","slug":"turkiye-qatar-sign-mutual-defence-agreement-turkish-presidency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4380","title":{"rendered":"Turkiye, Qatar sign mutual defence agreement, Turkish presidency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Turkiye and Qatar signed a mutual defence agreement on Friday, \u200bthe office of President Tayyip Erdogan said, as \u200cthe Turkish leader met the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Istanbul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Erdogan stated that we would continue \u200bworking together to prevent the resurgence of war \u200bin the Gulf region and establish a basis \u2060for dialogue and achieve peace,\u201d the presidency said in \u200ba statement on X, which did not provide details \u200bon the defence accord.<\/p>\n<p>The statement cited him as saying that Turkiye and Qatar were working to develop and diversify their energy partnership, \u200band that their cooperation in the defence industry \u200bwould continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Erdogan stated that the Mutual Defence Agreement \u200csigned \u2060today by Turkiye and Qatar would add another dimension to our brotherhood,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a joint defence agreement in Makkah, bringing together \u200bthe Sunni \u200bMuslim US allies \u2060at a time of conflict across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Turkiye\u2019s parliament ratified the so-called Makkah \u200bJoint Defence Agreement last week, clearing the way for \u200bAnkara \u2060to send military support to Saudi Arabia, which has been struggling to fend off attacks by Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi \u2060militants.<\/p>\n<p>Under \u200bthe agreement, signed by the \u200bthree regional powers in August, an attack on one party constitutes an \u200battack on all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkiye and Qatar signed a mutual defence agreement on Friday, \u200bthe office of President Tayyip Erdogan said, as \u200cthe Turkish leader met the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Istanbul. \u201cPresident Erdogan stated that we would continue \u200bworking together to prevent the resurgence of war \u200bin the Gulf region and establish a basis \u2060for dialogue and achieve peace,\u201d the presidency said in \u200ba statement on X, which did not provide details \u200bon the defence accord. The statement cited him as saying that Turkiye and Qatar were working to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}