{"id":15654,"date":"2009-10-21T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15654"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:55:27","slug":"turkey-officially-protests-removal-of-its-flag-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/21\/turkey-officially-protests-removal-of-its-flag-in-baku\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Officially Protests Removal Of Its Flag In Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>October 21, 2009<\/div>\n<div>BAKU &#8212; Turkey has officially protested the removal of its national flag from a building in the Azerbaijani capital that belongs to the Turkish Embassy in Baku, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani Service reports.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told journalists that the ministry received an official note from the Turkish officials and is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Muzaffar Shahin of the Turkish Embassy told RFE\/RL that several men in civilian clothes removed the flag on October 21 from the building housing Turkish Embassy&#8217;s Office for Religious Affairs without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>On October 17, Azerbaijani authorities removed Turkey&#8217;s national flag from Baku&#8217;s Alley of Martyrs shortly after the Azerbaijani flag was not allowed at the historic Armenian-Turkish soccer match in the Turkish city of Bursa that was attended by Armenian and Turkish leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey have grown tense since Armenian-Turkish fence-mending protocols were signed in Zurich on October 10.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/Turkey_Officially_Protests_Removal_Of_Its_Flag_In_Baku\/1857829.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 2009 BAKU &#8212; Turkey has officially protested the removal of its national flag from a building in the Azerbaijani capital that belongs to the Turkish Embassy in Baku, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani Service reports. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told journalists that the ministry received an official note from the Turkish officials and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}