New York, Sept. 22 -- Days after signing a trilateral mutual defence alliance with Islamabad, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took the floor at the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in which he sought to echo Pakistan's anti-India playbook on Kashmir and also talked of dialogue.

The trilateral pact, known as the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, was signed in Mecca on August 7 by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Addressing the assembly in New York, Erdogan raised the Kashmir bogey. "In South Asia, it is important that all disputes, including the Kashmir issue, be addressed through dialogue within the framework of the United Nations Charter and of relevant reso...