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Türkiye’s embassy in Azerbaijan on Saturday denied an Azerbaijani media report that suggested Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan may have given coup-related instructions during a visit to Baku, calling the claims “deliberate lies” meant to turn Azerbaijanis against Türkiye.
The report, published Saturday by Qafqazinfo and some other outlets under the title “Behind the scenes of Hakan Fidan’s meeting at the GYF,” has since been deleted, according to the material provided.
It said Fidan held a meeting at the Youth Assistance Foundation, known by the initials GYF, and gave certain instructions to young people there. It named no source and did not say what the instructions were.
The report did not state outright that Fidan ordered a coup. Instead, it argued that Azerbaijan has faced attempts by Türkiye-linked organizations to stage a coup and create chaos.
As its example, it cited a 1995 coup plot in Azerbaijan, saying one participant, Ferman Demirkol, worked for the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, known as TIKA.
The report described that case as proof that Türkiye-linked humanitarian organizations had been involved in coup and chaos plans in Azerbaijan.
It said the same activities could not be ruled out today, and that past experience and the missions of Turkish organizations in the Middle East, Africa and Asia pointed in that direction.
Those facts, it said, “bring to the fore” the possibility that Fidan gave similar instructions about Azerbaijan during the Baku meeting.
The report offered no evidence that any such instructions were given.
It concluded that Azerbaijan should review the activities of Türkiye-linked organizations, GYF included.
The embassy said the report relied “entirely on false allegations” and was part of a disinformation effort by circles seeking to damage relations between the two countries.
It said claims that Fidan held a secret meeting and issued various instructions were “absolutely not true.”
It singled out phrases in the report, including “plans to interfere in internal affairs,” “intelligence operations,” “coup and chaos plans” and “training influence agents,” calling them deliberate lies intended to provoke the people of Azerbaijan against Türkiye.
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According to the embassy, Fidan posed for courtesy photographs with many people during his Baku visit, among them members of an organization that has legal status in Azerbaijan. It did not name the organization.
The report also cited a letter it said Fidan sent to the speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on July 17, 2025, and that it said was leaked to the media.
The embassy said the report used the alleged letter to advance claims unconnected to reality. “There is no such letter,” it said.
The embassy urged the public in both countries not to believe what it called “despicable slander” and manipulative claims.
Türkiye and Azerbaijan are close allies, and officials in both countries often describe the relationship as “one nation, two states.”
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