{"id":87033,"date":"2026-08-31T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/?p=87033"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:15:50","slug":"ishaq-dar-turkiyes-defence-minister-discuss-bilateral-defence-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/ishaq-dar-turkiyes-defence-minister-discuss-bilateral-defence-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishaq Dar, T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Defence Minister discuss bilateral defence cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Meeting held on sidelines of inaugural Strategic Political and Defence Committee session<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Minister of National Defence Ya\u015far G\u00fcler on the sidelines of the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defence Committee, established under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides discussed bilateral defence cooperation and matters of mutual interest, reaffirming the importance of continued engagement between Pakistan and T\u00fcrkiye in the defence and strategic domains.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The meeting formed part of Pakistan\u2019s ongoing diplomatic and strategic engagement with T\u00fcrkiye and provided an opportunity to exchange views on areas of mutual interest and further strengthen bilateral defence ties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting held on sidelines of inaugural Strategic Political and Defence Committee session ISTANBUL: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Minister of National Defence Ya\u015far G\u00fcler on the sidelines of the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defence Committee, established under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement. The two sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":87034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diplomacy","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87035,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87033\/revisions\/87035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}