Erdoğan’s Party Seeks to Ease Tensions with Azerbaijan over School Headscarf Ban - Turkish Minute
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The introduction of headscarves in schools in Azerbaijan has pitted high-ranking AKP officials against each other. While Erdoğan's chief advisor Oktay Saral stated that the issue is "unacceptable and the mistake must be rectified," former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, "Who dares to interfere in Azerbaijan's internal affairs? We will punish them in the harshest way."
The headscarf controversy in Azerbaijan has pitted high-ranking AKP officials against each other. Following a statement by Erdoğan's chief advisor Oktay Saral that "the mistake must be rectified," former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım responded, "Who dares to interfere in Azerbaijan's internal affairs? We will punish them in the harshest way."
Criticism of the headscarf policy in Azerbaijan has turned into a rift within the AKP. Following Oktay Saral's reaction, Binali Yıldırım stated that those who attempt to interfere in Azerbaijan's internal affairs will be punished. The use of Turkish airspace by Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog to visit Baku added a new dimension to the debate. Azerbaijan did not back down; the article "A rift within the AKP regarding Binali Yıldırım" first appea…
Erdoğan’s party seeks to ease tensions with Azerbaijan over school headscarf ban - Turkish Minute
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Thursday called for problems with Azerbaijan to be discussed “in the family,” as criticism of its ally’s school headscarf restrictions and ties with Israel fueled a dispute between politicians in the two countries. AKP deputy chairman Kürşad Zorlu, who oversees relations with Turkic […]
The Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States, former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, said in an interview with the Azerbaijani channel Manşet.az, "Who has the right to interfere in Azerbaijan's internal affairs?" Five days later, after the President's Chief Advisor Oktay Saral criticized the headscarf practices in Azerbaijan, the channel contacted Yıldırım again. Yıldırım said that he found Saral's statements inappr…
AKP Deputy Chairman Kürşat Zorlu made a statement regarding the ongoing tension between Turkey and Azerbaijan over relations with Israel and the statements made following the headscarf ban. Zorlu said, "We know how to discuss our problems within our family circle, in a way that befits us. Our President's love for Azerbaijan comes from the heart."
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