Posted on 07/21/2020 5:38:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for supporting forces based in eastern Libya, after Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met Libyan tribesmen who urged Cairo to intervene in the war.
Turkey has been providing military aid to the United Nations-recognised government in the Libya conflict, while Egypt, the UAE and Russia have backed its foes in a rival administration based in the east.
Recent weeks have seen dramatic military advances by the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), which drove back forces of the eastern renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar who had launched an assault on Tripoli last year.
Eastern-based legislators called this week for Egypt to intervene in the conflict. El-Sisi met Libyan tribesmen on Thursday and said Egypt would not stand idle in the face of a direct threat to Egyptian and Libyan security.
Asked about the possibility of Egyptian intervention, Erdogan said on Friday Turkey would maintain its support for the GNA.
"Steps taken by Egypt here, especially their siding with the putschist Haftar, show they are in an illegal process," he said. He also described the approach of the UAE as "piratical".
El-Sisi said last month Egypt's army might enter Libya if the Tripoli government and its Turkish allies renewed an assault on the central Sirte-Jufrah front line, seen as the gateway to Libya's main oil export terminals, now held by Haftar's allies.
Libya has been mired in conflict since 2011, when longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi was removed in a NATO-backed operation.
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The Government of National Accord is an interim government for Libya that was formed under the terms of the Libyan Political Agreement, a United Nations–led initiative, signed on 17 December 2015. [wikipedia]
Come on, Egypt, destiny is calling you.
Erdogan, your Islamist Greater Turkey dreams are about to be flushed into the Mediterranean.
If Erdogan is against something, that something is probably a good thing.
So was the actions taken by the usurper and his pals, Hillary, McCain, Rubio and Graham in overthrowing the government in Libya the first time.
A recent Washington ComPost op-ed (it's obviousnly not just an article) starts right out bitching about a lack of US leadership making Libya into the steaming crap-pile that Obama, Hitlery, and much of the EU turned it into for no good reason.
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