President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held two separate phone calls on Wednesday: with Ilham Aliyev and with Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev. Türkiye’s Communications Directorate announced them. They are calls. They are not a new treaty. Attendance at the summits is not confirmed.

Daily Sabah, with Anadolu Agency: on the Aliyev call, Ankara restated cooperation and the bonds of “brotherhood.” Erdoğan congratulated him on the 35th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s Restoration of Independence and invited him to the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States, in Ankara. An invitation. Not a published RSVP.

With Radev, separately: a will to deepen ties and concrete steps, especially in trade. Erdoğan spoke of Türkiye’s efforts for safe navigation in the Black Sea, through contacts with Russia and with Ukraine. He offered condolences after a drone attack in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone. He invited him to COP31, 11–12 November, in Antalya. A calendar. Not attendance.

The Communications Directorate, on its site: the same skeleton, in two notes. With Aliyev — bilateral, regional, global relations; congratulations; an invitation. With Radev — relations; trade; navigation; condolences; COP31. Official text. Not a treaty.

BTA, from the Bulgarian government press office: they confirmed a commitment to free navigation; bilateral and trilateral initiatives with Romania; Erdoğan expressed regret over drone strikes on commercial ships in the EEZ. Daily Sabah writes “a drone attack.” Two phrasings. BTA adds that Radev invited Erdoğan to a high-level meeting in Sofia early next year, under the European Commission. A BTA reading. It is not the Romanian fleet. It is not Wednesday’s signature.

Source consulted: Erdoğan discusses regional security with Azerbaijan, Bulgaria leaders — Daily Sabah.

Image: the Presidential Complex, Ankara, 7 July 2026, Estonian Foreign Ministry, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The Beştepe façade, not Wednesday’s phone.

Sources consulted: President Erdoğan, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan talk over phone — Directorate of Communications.