Middle East / Turkey · Politics

Turkey submits Mecca defense pact to parliament

Rank
Running: 17h
Updated: 10h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 3
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 8 Oct, 10:52 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in العربية (3) · +1 language

Read at The Express Tribune

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 8 Oct, 10:52 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 8 Oct, 13:26 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%16%67%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 16%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 67%

First movers

The Express Tribune 8 Oct, 10:52 UTC
Anadolu Agency +26m
Syria TV +2h 35m
Infobae +2h 53m
SANA +2h 57m

Latest arrivals

Al Sharq 8 Oct, 17:38 UTC
SANA 8 Oct, 13:49 UTC
Infobae 8 Oct, 13:45 UTC
Syria TV 8 Oct, 13:26 UTC
Anadolu Agency 8 Oct, 11:18 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 1: Pakistan. Middle East 3: Qatar, Syria, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, English, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 8 Oct 2026, 10:52 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 11:20 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 17:38 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Middle East, Turkey. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.76, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged from 2 stories Turkey submits Mecca defense pact to parliament; فيدان: اتفاقية مكة لا تنص على إرسال قوات تركية إلى أراضي دول أخرى. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

8 Oct 2026 208 4.10 6 5 6 5 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 11:20 UTC · Updated 17:38 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Infobae Argentina 8 Oct, 13:45 UTC
Turquía insiste en el carácter defensivo del pacto de La Meca y asegura que no atacará desde un tercer país

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

The Express Tribune Pakistan 8 Oct, 10:52 UTC
Turkiye's FM Fidan maintains Makkah pact is 'defensive' in nature, will not send troops

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 6 outlets

Americas 1 outlet

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Middle East 4 outlets