Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia will establish political and military mechanisms to coordinate under a joint defense pact signed last week, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
The mechanisms will bring together the three countries' defense and foreign ministers as well as their military chiefs, the ministry said at a weekly briefing in Ankara.
The three countries signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement on Aug. 7, which states that an armed attack on one member will be treated as an attack on all three, similar to NATO's collective defense principle.
The ministry said the countries were also planning joint military exercises and would deepen defense industry cooperation, including possible joint production and technology sharing.
The pact brings together three regional powers amid the Iran war, which has seen Iranian missile attacks reach regional countries.
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