Before the impact of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s announcement that he would not attend the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) Summit in Ankara had even begun to fade, a report from Baku triggered a new rift in Türkiye-Azerbaijan relations. For quite some time, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had been lobbying for Feridun Sinirlioğlu, Secretary General
Yesterday, on May 26, Azerbaijani flags were hoisted on 4 border villages from which Armenia had withdrawn as a result of the agreements. This condition was Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev’s red line for reaching a deal with Armenia; he even declared that it could be an act of war. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, on