Zaher Albik-Ankara
A private source from the Contact Department of the Turkish Presidency of Al-Jazeera Net denied that the decision-making corridors inside the Republic's Palace in Ankara were discussing sending Syrian fighters to Libya.
Events on the Libyan scene are accelerating with the approach of the Turkish parliament’s approach to sending forces to Tripoli to support the forces of the reconciliation government.
Reuters news agency quoted Turkish sources as saying that the Turkish government is considering pushing Syrian fighters allied with it to Libya, as part of its planned military support for the National Accord government in Tripoli.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week that his government was ready to send Turkish forces to Libya, after Prime Minister al-Wefaq Faiz al-Sarraj asked for support.
While the Turkish envoy to Libya refused to order God Ashler to comment to Al-Jazeera Net on this issue, a private source from the Turkish Presidency contact department denied discussing sending Syrian fighters to Libya in the decision-making corridors inside the Republic Palace in Ankara.
"There may be a desire among some inside Turkey to send Syrian fighters who fought with the Turkish army against terrorist organizations in northern Syria, but there is currently no decision in this direction, and this issue was not raised in the government meetings that were held in order to discuss the Libyan file," the source said.
He pointed out that they expect to pass a decision to send Turkish forces to Libya at the emergency session of parliament on Thursday, noting that there is no final decision on the size of the forces and equipment that will be sent there.
Tripoli denies
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that Turkey transferred approximately 300 fighters from the Syrian territories to Libya, while the number of conscripts who arrived in the Turkish camps to receive training amounted to between 900 and 1,000 recruits.
The Syrian Observatory said that the new batch of armed men who arrived in the Turkish camps consisted of fighters of the Sultan Murad and Suleiman Shah factions and the Mu'tasim pro-Turkish division.
The observatory's information coincided with the widespread circulation of video recordings on social media, showing Syrian fighters believed to be on one of the fighting hubs in Tripoli.
For his part, the media office of the President of the Presidential Council of the Libyan National Accord Government denied the authenticity of the video recordings that are circulating on some social media pages, which show some Syrian fighters in one of the camps, and claim that they are in Libya.
In the statement, the Government of National Accord confirmed its prosecution of all those who contribute to the dissemination of these lies and other slanders, as described, considering the publication of these recordings as a desperate attempt to distort the victories achieved by its forces.