[ad_1]
Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive to take over Tripoli last year by attacking a UN-recognized government led by Prime Minister Fayez Saraj, has threatened to use force against Turkish troops if Ankara does not stop. support a legitimate government in the war-torn north. country. This is what the Turkish daily Sabah writes, quoted by the FOCUS news agency.
Haftar’s comments came in response to the Turkish parliament’s decision to extend for 18 months a law allowing the deployment of Turkish troops in Libya. Turkish military aid to the Tripoli-based National Consent Government (PNC), including advisers, equipment and intelligence, has helped stop Haftar’s attacks on the capital for a year.
“There will be no security or peace as Turkish military boots desecrate our sacred land,” Haftar said in remarks from his eastern stronghold in Benghazi on the 69th anniversary of Libya’s independence. “We carry weapons to achieve peace with our hands. And our will for freedom.”
Libya
[ad_2]
