Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirms that Turkey had barred President Isaac Herzog from its airspace earlier this week, forcing him to cancel his planned visit to the United Nations COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Herzog’s office announced on Saturday that he would not be attending the conference due to “security considerations.”
During a press conference at the G20 Leaders Summit in Brazil, Erdogan confirms that Herzog was prevented from flying over Turkey in the official Wing of Zion airplane, due to Turkey’s opposition to the war on Hamas in Gaza.
“With regard to the Israeli president going to Azerbaijan for the COP summit, we did not allow him to use our airspace,” Turkish media cites Erdogan as saying in response to a question about Turkish pressure on Israel to end the fighting. “There are other areas, there are other opportunities, we told him to travel from there… but I do not know whether he was able to go or not.”
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