Azerbaijan’s Oil Continues To Be Shipped To Israel Through Turkiye

The Turkish government recently announced the severance of trade relations with the Israeli regime and the comprehensive trade embargo of this regime. Ankara has made the lifting of sanctions conditional on the cessation of attacks on the Gaza Strip and the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid into the besieged area, but reports show that Azerbaijan’s oil continues to be in the possession of the Tel Aviv regime through Turkiye.

According to the announcement of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (a London-based pan-Arab news outlet), Azerbaijan has close relations with Turkiye and the Israeli regime, and Ankara has not yet stopped the loading of Azerbaijani oil at the port of Ceyhan for delivery to the Israeli-occupied territories; Azerbaijan’s oil enters Turkiye through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and from there is loaded onto tankers and transported to the port of Haifa in occupied Palestine.

According to available information, most of the oil needed by the Israeli regime is supplied by Central Asian countries such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and this is all depended on passing through the route of Turkiye. The Israeli regime was at the top of the list of destinations for Azerbaijan-produced oil in January of the current year, with a shipment of 523,500 tons worth $297 million.

In this regard, sources close to the Israeli regime stated that the main concern of Tel Aviv at the moment is that Turkiye may take further measures such as preventing the flights over this country or avoiding the dispatch of ships to the destination of the Israeli-occupied territories in the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, which connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.

According to the Israeli officials, Tel Aviv’s only hope is that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will refrain from taking such harsh and radical actions out of fear of the reaction of other countries that trade with the Israeli regime.