Turkey will send military forces to Libya: Erdogan

ANKARA, Dec. 26 (YPA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that his country would send troops to Libya since Tripoli has requested that.

“We will present to the Turkish parliament a draft law to send troops to Libya when it resumes its work in January, in order to meet the call of the Libyan reconciliation government,” the Turkish Anatolia agency quoted Erdogan as saying in a speech.

Erdogan added that “Turkey has provided and will provide all kinds of support to the government of Tripoli, which is fighting against Haftar’s coup backed by several countries, including Arab countries.”

During his meeting with Tunisian President Qais Saeed on Wednesday, Erdogan said that they discussed the Libyan issue in all its dimensions, adding “We reached an agreement to provide the necessary support to Libya for its stability.”

Since the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya has suffered a sharp split in the state institutions between the east, run by the Parliament with the support of the National Army led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and the west where the internationally-recognized national reconciliation government is stationed, which has failed to gain the confidence of Parliament.

YPA