Why does Azerbaijan enter into a conflict with Turkey, its traditional and one of its main partners?
Relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan have recently been in crisis. Ilham Aliyev's party claims that Turkish politicians are engaged in anti-Azerbaijani activities, the Azerbaijani media accuses the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry of preparing a coup, and the local prosecutor's office put eight Turkish citizens on the international wanted list in this case.
Ankara is actively trying to extinguish the conflict, but Baku, on the contrary, is escalating it. What are the main contradictions between countries that once called themselves "one nation, two countries"? Bashir Kitchiev, a journalist specializing in the South Caucasus, answers this question in a text for the Carnegie Politics Project. Medusa publishes this article in its entirety.
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