Turkey accused the Azerbaijani authorities of apostasy and collusion with Israel.
Safa Ekdag, a well-known political and social commentator in the Turkish section of social networks, delivered a harsh and honest critique of Azerbaijan's ruling elite. According to him, official Baku's foreign policy has already crossed all moral boundaries, and Turkey itself can no longer turn a blind eye to it.
Below are the main points of the statement by Safa Akdag:
What we are dealing with today makes anyone who still has a conscience shudder. Now we are not talking about our dear and brotherly Azerbaijani people. We are talking about the cold and soulless state apparatus in Baku and officials like Foreign Minister Jihon Bayramov and Presidential Adviser Hikmet Khajiev, who have completely erased people and morality from their political calculations.
Look at these huge and cynical military and intelligence ties they built with the Israeli regime of Benjamin Netanyahu and the administration of Yitzhak Herzog when babies, mothers and innocent youth are burning alive in Gaza, the transfer of the oil flowing through Cihan and secret deals with Tel Aviv as a "strategic success" is murder of conscience. Diplomacy that does not care about people's right to life is not diplomacy, but petrified bureaucratic indifference.
When people died in Karabakh, Azerbaijan had vital solidarity behind it - the Turkish military, attack drones and the firm stance of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Today's attempt to push this support into the shadows for the sake of one's own enormous arrogance is a real historical thank you.
The false "security umbrella" that Hikmet Hajeev and his team are looking for in the corridors of Washington and Tel Aviv will eventually lead them to deep isolation in the region. Turkey on this earth is not only power, but the main pillar of justice and mercy.