Turkey has accelerated its steps to deploy its forces in Libya, claiming that the Libyan conflict threatens to slide the country into chaos, and that Libya becomes the next Syria, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoوlu will meet, with three opposition party leaders, today, to discuss sending naval and ground forces to Tripoli to support The Fayez Al-Sarraj government faces the Libyan National Army led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, and the Turkish parliament is expected to discuss legislation that allows Ankara to send its forces to Tripoli within the next week.
"If Libya becomes today like Syria, the role will come on other countries in the region, we must do everything necessary to prevent the division of Libya and its descent into chaos, and this is what we are doing," he said in statements to a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey. The importance of the military and security agreement that Turkey signed with Libya, without responding to the recent international criticism of the Turkish role in Libya, whether from the United States or the European Union.
Ankara signed two separate agreements last month with the Al-Sarraj government, one on security and military cooperation, and the other on maritime borders in the eastern Mediterranean. The two agreements are "baseless", and they contradict international law, and Athens condemned the maritime agreement, indicating that Turkey and Libya do not share any maritime borders.
Earlier, a senior State Department official considered that the military memorandum of understanding signed between Turkey and the Al-Sarraj government was "provocative and of concern to the United States", and leaders of European Union countries expressed concern about the memorandum of understanding regarding the demarcation of maritime borders in the Mediterranean, as In violation of the sovereign rights of another country, and it is not consistent with maritime law, and this memorandum cannot have any legal effects on the country in which the memo violated its sovereign rights.
In addition, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya condemned the targeting of civilian installations in the west of the country, in the context of the battles there, and the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Libya Ghassan Salameh stressed, in a statement, the need to protect civilians and civilian facilities throughout Libya.
In a related context, the Kremlin mentioned that Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed, during a telephone conversation, yesterday, the need to strengthen political and diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving the Libyan crisis.