Inside the Turkey-Azerbaijan rift: How a headscarf ban strained an alliance

Inside the Turkey-Azerbaijan rift: How a headscarf ban strained an alliance Submitted by Ragip Soylu on Mon, 10/19/2026 - 12:36 Azerbaijani media accuse Turkish foreign minister of plotting unrest as Baku demands Erdogan adviser’s dismissal over headscarf ban remarks Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pictured during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop29) in Baku on 12 November 2024 (Alexander Nemenov/AFP) Off Senior Turkish military and defence industry of