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November 18, 2024 | 12:42 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Turkey effectively blocked Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s participation in the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, last week. Ankara denied permission for Herzog's aircraft to fly over Turkish airspace, according to several reports citing Azerbaijan and Turkey’s officials.
On Saturday, the office of the President of Israel announced that he had canceled his participation in the conference, citing "security concerns” without further elaboration.
Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, citing sources from Azerbaijan, stated that Turkey's refusal to allow the Israeli leader's plane to pass through its airspace was the main reason for Herzog’s canceled appearance in Baku.
An unnamed Azerbaijani official was reported to have said that Israel and Turkey were engaged in "intensive negotiations through diplomatic channels that lasted for several days but did not yield results."
The rest of the Israeli delegation for the conference landed in Baku on November 11, traveling there on a commercial flight through Georgia.
Al-Monitor reported that official Turkish sources confirmed that the government denied permission for Herzog’s aircraft to pass Turkish airspace.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Wednesday the severance of diplomatic relations with Israel in response to its reluctance to stop the offensive in Gaza.
Erdogan also stated that he had no intention of restoring those relations in the future.
Relations between Turkey and Israel deteriorated in 2010 after Israeli special forces intercepted the ship Mavi Marmara sailing from Turkey to Gaza.
In May 2018, Ankara asked the Israeli ambassador to leave Turkey following protests in Gaza amid the 70th anniversary of Israel's formation and the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Turkey-Israel relations worsened further since Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has killed over 43,700 Palestinians.
Earlier this year, Turkey intervened in the case of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to support Palestine and advocate for an arms embargo against Tel Aviv.
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