A senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has confirmed that Baku pressured Israel to drop its recognition of the Armenian Genocide, telling Turkish television that the intervention was carried out to protect the interests of "brotherly Turkey." Hikmet Hajiyev, Aliyev's foreign policy adviser, said in an interview with the Turkish news channel Haber Global that Israel's move to recognize the genocide was a "red line" for Baku. "Since the interests of brotherly Turkey have always been a priority for Azerbaijan, this issue is an unchanging 'red line' for us," he said. Hajiyev said Aliyev personally ordered his government to contact Israel immediately after the recognition, which he called "unfair,"...