Relations with Southern and Northern Neighbors: A Complex Interplay

For the second time in two months, official Baku is attempting to ease tensions between Israel and Turkey — two countries whose relations with Azerbaijan are of strategic importance. The latest mediation initiative followed an Israeli missile strike...

Israel says it prevented Turkish forces from deploying in northern Syria. Damascus and Ankara deny that such a deployment was planned, while the United States is trying to establish a three-way deconfliction mechanism. Experts consider a direct...

The investigation into an influential religious community, the arrests of opposition politicians and the dispute over the 2028 elections form part of the same picture: Turkey’s government is becoming increasingly determined to restrict independent...

Tehran presents direct dialogue with Baku as a model for its new policy of good neighbourliness. Yet behind the warmth of the president’s personal contacts remain the security establishment’s old suspicions, disputes over security and the struggle...