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