Author: Zainab Jamil

Turkey says it expects Egypt to eventually join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, the new regional security pact it signed with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia last week. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told state news agency Anadolu that Egypt was a “natural partner on all issues” and that only a few technical matters stood in the way of it becoming part of the alliance. “I believe that at the next stage Egypt will also be among us in the alliance,” he said. “We already act toward one another as if we were alliance members.” The pact was signed on Friday…