After their parliament agreed to send troops to Libya ... what did the Turks say?

Khalil Mabrouk - Istanbul

The Turkish parliament approved the presidential memo regarding sending Turkish forces to Libya, but it opened a new debate in which details of social and political life in Turkey were mixed.

The decision came to fuel the line-up and acute polarization between political community activists and social media activists.

The Turkish opposition - with its right and republican poles - continued its attack on the decision to send the "Mehmedi" army overseas, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters continued to defend him.

Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaro أوlu commented on the parliament’s decision to summon a historic song he posted on his Twitter account to Mughniyeh, in which she tells how the Turkish mother mourns sending the children abroad.

Clichdaroglu wrote in his tweet the lyrics of the song, saying: "A century ago our mothers sang what Yemen means? Do not go to Yemen .. and do not burn this song," referring to the massacre that the Ottoman army had received in Yemen during World War I.

And the head of the opposition Republican People's Party continued, "After a century, I tell you not to burn our mothers in new Yemen ... leave the" Muhammed Cek "- the title of the Turkish army - away from the Libyan desert."

As for the ruling Justice and Development Party, the parliament’s decision was described as historic, and the party’s spokesman, Omar Gelik, said in a tweet addressed by the Turkish media, that the decision represented a victory for Turkey over all those who tried to build a prison for it in the Mediterranean, before the prospects of the Turkish-Libyan agreement in Horizon, as he put it.

Sharp split
Gillik's tweet sparked wide reactions that varied between supporters and opponents of it on the communication sites, as Muhammed Gündüz Dermanjiوlu responded to Gillik by saying, "We want the 375 deputies to send their children and relatives to Libya," in reference to the deputies who voted to agree to send the Turkish forces to Libya.

Despite the large majority that the decision to support the presidential note received in the Turkish parliament, the street and virtual society appeared more divided on the decision, and if the Turks showed a known unification from them in support of their army.

On the account of the newspaper "Yeni Shafak" in Facebook, Mustafa Yazıcıo أوlu commented on the news of the parliament with "praying to God that the Turkish army preserve all the time by land, sea and air."

In the context, Arjan Tuysuz said that Turkey will be everywhere its interest requires it, "Let us trust the new world order in which we will spoil their games."

On the other hand, Orhan Bursali, a well-known writer in the Cumhuriyet newspaper, believed that only the Turkish parliament had hoped to prevent the dangerous adventure of sending soldiers to Libya, and he refused to send soldiers to fight in the 2003 Iraq war.

Bursali strongly criticized putting all the details of the army sending combat in Turkey in the hands of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that this step represents a caveat by the council towards its responsibilities.

The memo allows Erdogan to decide on the timing, scope, and number of troops sent.

Vietnam War
As for the Turkish news website "Udiv", he published an article for Aslan's life, under the title "Can we learn from the Vietnam War in the Libyan campaign?", In which he criticized the decision-making method.

Aslan said that the Turkish parliament had to make its decision regarding sending the army to Libya by resorting to two questions, the first of which is the threat posed by the Libyan crisis to Turkey, and the second about the need for Turkish attention in Libya to military intervention.

On Thursday evening, the Turkish Parliament approved by a majority of 325 votes to 184, against a memorandum authorizing the presidency to send military forces to Libya to support the internationally recognized government of reconciliation.

The mandate note will allow the presidency a renewable year to provide various support, including sending military forces to Libya, to support the Al-Wefaq government in the face of the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter.