By Haris Ahmed

It said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler and chief of the general staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu would attend the meeting of the pact’s strategic political and defence committee, along with officials from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.A team from the Makkah defence deal between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will hold talks in Riyadh on Monday (5 October), with Turkish ministers among those joining, the Turkish foreign ministry stated on Sunday.

The chief of Yemen’s Saudi-backed state declared on Sunday the start of a major army operation against the Iran-backed Houthis earlier on Sunday, targeted at taking the land under their management.

Pakistan’s foreign minister stated on Friday that Iran had advised talking to Yemen’s Houthis politically after strikes by the group, an idea that the Makkah defence deal team would talk about at a session in Riyadh this week.

“The session will look at recent events in the area and the point reached in the Group’s formal building steps,” the Turkish report stated.

It stated Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler and head of the army staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu would join the session of the deal’s strategic political and defence team, along with authorities from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.