Turkey Plans Parliamentary Mandate to Deploy Military Personnel to Saudi Arabia Under Defense Pact

 

Turkey Plans Parliamentary Mandate to Deploy Military Personnel to Saudi Arabia Under Defense Pact

 

Turkey plans to seek parliamentary authorization to deploy military personnel to Saudi Arabia under a joint defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a ruling-party lawmaker told Reuters on Wednesday.

Turkey submitted the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement to parliament for ratification on Tuesday. The lawmaker said the separate deployment mandate would be submitted after parliament approves the agreement.

The three countries signed the pact on August 7, establishing a mutual-defense commitment under which an armed attack on one member would be treated as an attack on all three. The agreement brings NATO member Turkey, Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan into a trilateral defense arrangement as Saudi Arabia faces missile and drone attacks from Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

Under the proposed Turkish contribution, technical personnel and specialists would initially support Saudi air defenses, electronic warfare capabilities and other defensive systems. A Turkish ruling-party lawmaker said personnel deployed under the agreement would not participate in offensive operations. Turkish officials have also discussed military equipment, intelligence sharing and weapons systems as potential forms of support.

The agreement comes as the three countries expand military coordination in response to regional security threats. Pakistan has confirmed that its forces are serving in Saudi Arabia under the pact, while Turkey has been assessing how to assist the kingdom. Turkey has also agreed to join a Saudi-led coalition focused on protecting navigation in the Red Sea.

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: At every step of the Mecca Agreement process, shills online have mocked and ridiculed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for believing that Turkey or anyone else would ever come to their aid in a military capacity. There have been countless psyops deployed by various entities claiming that Turkey had reneged on the agreement, or that the agreement was all for show, or that the Muslims had no honor and wouldn’t follow through on their promises. (I assume all of these ops were orchestrated by the CIA and Mossad.)

Well who’s laughing now? The Turkish military is now going to be in Saudi Arabia, which puts them right on the doorstep of Israel.

Israel is having an election next week in which pretty much every major candidate has forecast a military conflict with Turkey. Well it’s easy to run your mouth when the Turkish military is hundreds of miles away and Erdogan’s threatening rhetoric seems performative.

It’s another thing when the Turkish military—which is the largest military not only in the Middle East, but also in Europe—has you completely surrounded. What do I mean by that? Take a look at the map below.

As the article explained, in addition to the Mecca Agreement, Turkey also joined the Saudi-led Red Sea naval coalition, so it’s likely that the Turkish navy is already in the Red Sea and around the Gulf of Acaba (southern tip of Israel) as well as in the eastern Mediterranean. It’s likely that we’ll see a ramp-up of those forces, and that ground forces will be brought in by both air and sea. The Turkish military has been on the ground in Syria since the “fall” of Assad, which Israel loves to whine about, and now it would be very easy to deploy ground troops on the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) as well as in the Jordanian desert.

Simply put, Turkey has the numbers to completely surround Israel while also aiding the Saudis with whatever tomfoolery is happening down in Yemen. And this is before Pakistan or Egypt even get involved.

So I guess the question now is, what is Israel going to do? Will the winner of this upcoming election (whether it’s Netanyahu or Naftali Bennett or Gadi Eisenkot) follow through on their respective promises to flex on Turkey and fight them in Syria? The IDF still hasn’t even defeated Hamas. Apparently they are still kicking around. How the hell are they going to contend with one of the largest militaries in the world, especially when that military is already deployed in the Red Sea and on the Arabian Peninsula? And didn’t Trump just say that if Netanyahu loses the election then the US is going to pull out and stop fighting Iran?

How easy would it be for the Turks to embargo Israel—which is completely dependent on imported products (including food) to sustain its population?