{"id":649974,"date":"2026-10-18T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:04:25","slug":"uproar-after-israeli-president-herzog-bypasses-turkish-ban-using-commercial-azerbaijani-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649974\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Uproar\u2019 after Israeli President Herzog bypasses Turkish ban using commercial Azerbaijani jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog bypassed a Turkish ban on using its airspace to travel to Baku on Wednesday by flying on a commercial Azerbaijan Airlines jet, sparking outrage in Ankara. Turkish officials later said they were not aware Herzog was on the commercial jet. Turkey had previously denied Herzog permission to fly over its airspace for a trip to Azerbaijan in 2024, resulting in Herzog cancelling his plans to attend the COP29 conference held in Baku.<\/p>\n<p>The news came amidst sharpened tensions between Azerbaijan and Turkey, which appears to have been set off by Azerbaijan\u2019s controversial ban on hijabs in schools. At the same time, Ankara has long bristled at Azerbaijan\u2019s close ties with Israel, and some Turkish commentators have connected the two issues, claiming Baku\u2019s alleged disrespect of Islam can be partially explained by its friendship with Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/oc-media.org\/explainer-whats-behind-the-turkey-azerbaijan-spat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Explainer | What\u2019s behind the Turkey\u2013Azerbaijan spat?<\/p>\n<p>A variety of tenuously connected issues have exposed a deeper divide over the unequal power dynamics between Ankara and Baku.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lucky-VillageBediani_20261007-135419.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the prominent Azerbaijani pro-government outlet APA published an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.apa.az\/official-news\/israeli-president-traveled-to-baku-on-commercial-flight-uproar-in-turkiye-has-no-basis-530446?ref=oc-media.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> criticising the Turkish \u2018uproar\u2019 over the flight, saying \u2018the matter is quite simple\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No special aircraft or unusual flight was arranged for the Israeli President\u2019s visit to Azerbaijan. He arrived in Azerbaijan as a passenger on a commercial flight\u2019, APA wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In Turkey, however, those who look for a pretext concerning Azerbaijan every time and \u201cscrutinise\u201d it have turned this issue into a subject of manipulation as well\u2019, APA continued.<\/p>\n<p>Other Azerbaijani media outlets also covered the flight, arguing there was <a href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/foreign-politics\/did-azal-have-to-notify-turkiye-about-israeli-president-s-flight-haber-global-explains?ref=oc-media.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no need<\/a> to notify Turkey that Herzog was using its airspace because he used a commercial jet.<\/p>\n<p>Herzog was in Azerbaijan to attend the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). While in the country he also held a one-on-one meeting with President Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n<p>During the summit, Herzog gave a speech, prompting Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and others to stage a walk-out. Videos of the incident were spread widely on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli President Isaac Herzog bypassed a Turkish ban on using its airspace to travel to Baku on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-649974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}