Some claims circulating in Turkey over Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Azerbaijan have been clarified.
Globalinfo.az reports that, according to information obtained by APA, none of these claims has any basis and the matter is quite simple.
According to the information, the Israeli president, his aide and a small delegation travelled to Azerbaijan on a commercial flight operating on the Baku–Tel Aviv–Baku route. Like other passengers, they bought tickets and flew on the plane.
In other words, no special aircraft or unusual flight was arranged for the Israeli president’s visit to Azerbaijan. He arrived in Azerbaijan as a passenger on a commercial flight.
In Turkey, however, those who seek a pretext linked to Azerbaijan every time and conduct “inspections” have turned this into a subject for manipulation as well. Yet, if the same approach were applied to people travelling on commercial flights, it would also be necessary to investigate passengers using flights operated by Turkish Airlines, “Pegasus Airlines”, “AJet” and other airlines.
The Israeli president’s trip to Azerbaijan on a commercial flight with a purchased ticket was an ordinary passenger journey. There is no logical basis for unfounded calls over which flight he took and how he arrived in Baku.
It should be noted that, given the existing ties between Turkey and Israel in various fields, it is not an appropriate approach to make the Israeli president’s commercial flight to Azerbaijan a subject of special discussion.
It is worth recalling that Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Azerbaijan to attend the 7th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
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