Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Politics

Turkish officials visit Riyadh for Mecca alliance meeting

Rank
Running: 35h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 4 Oct, 06:25 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Türkçe (1) · +1 language

Read at The Express Tribune

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 4 Oct, 06:25 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Daily Sabah.
Second region: Middle East, with Daily Sabah.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 4 Oct, 10:12 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 33%
Middle East 4 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

The Express Tribune 4 Oct, 06:25 UTC
Daily Sabah +3h 46m
Hürriyet +3h 57m
Anadolu Agency +4h 26m
SANA +6h 33m

Latest arrivals

Daily Times 5 Oct, 05:03 UTC
SANA 4 Oct, 12:58 UTC
Anadolu Agency 4 Oct, 10:52 UTC
Hürriyet 4 Oct, 10:23 UTC
Daily Sabah 4 Oct, 10:12 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Pakistan. Middle East 2: 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, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 4 Oct 2026, 06:25 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 10:50 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 20:39 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, Saudi Arabia. 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: 0.04, 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.
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

4 Oct 2026 145 3.86 5 3 5 3 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 10:50 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Daily Times Pakistan 5 Oct, 05:03 UTC
Turkish FM to attend Makkah pact defence meeting in Riyadh today
The Express Tribune Pakistan 4 Oct, 06:25 UTC
Turkish foreign minister to attend Makkah Joint Defence Agreement committee meeting in Riyadh

Middle East 4 outlets

SANA Syria 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC
وزير الخارجية التركي: التطورات على صعيد اليمن والسعودية استدعت عقد اجتماع ‏حلف مكة
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- الخارجية التركية: فيدان يشارك في اجتماع اللجنة المشتركة لحلف مكة بالرياض‏ 4 Oct, 12:58 UTC
Hürriyet Turkey 5 Oct, 16:08 UTC
Bakan Fidan ve Bakan Güler, Mekke Ortak Savunma Anlaşması'nın Komite Toplantısı'na katıldı
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- Dışişleri Bakanı Hakan Fidan ve Milli Savunma Bakanı Yaşar Güler Riyad'a gidiyor 4 Oct, 10:23 UTC
Anadolu Agency Turkey 4 Oct, 10:52 UTC
Turkish foreign minister to attend Mecca Joint Defense Agreement committee meeting in Riyadh
Daily Sabah Turkey 4 Oct, 10:12 UTC
Turkish officials visit Riyadh as Mecca alliance gains momentum