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A NEW SUNNI AXIS?
Guest Voices Aug 13, 2026

A NEW SUNNI AXIS?

On Friday — a day of particular symbolic weight for the Islamic world — President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif put their signatures to a trilateral defense agreement in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.

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