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Source: Arabic.Net – Agencies
Despite signing the Berlin Agreement on January 19, which urged foreign countries to stop supporting internal parties to the Libyan conflict or to interfere in the country’s affairs, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that it would consider to the Libyan National Army led by Khalifa Haftar as legitimate targets if he continued his attacks against His interests and diplomatic missions in Libya.
“If our missions and interests in Libya are objective, we will consider Haftar’s forces as legitimate objectives,” the ministry said in a statement.
He also stated that the attacks on the Maitika airport in Tripoli early Saturday morning constituted “war crimes”. The attack was one of the intense artillery shell bombardments fired by the Libyan National Army in the capital.
On Saturday, Libyan Al-Wefaq militias announced that residential neighborhoods near the Maitakeya airport and the Bab Ghashir area in the capital Tripoli were targeted with missile attacks, while the Libyan National Petroleum Corporation announced a serious injury to the Brega Petroleum Marketing Company’s aviation fuel tanks at the Maitega International Airport warehouse.
Factions and militias loyal to the government of reconciliation in Tripoli (archive – AFP)
This occurs as Turkey continues to support the Al-Wefaq militia with mercenaries, and an earlier report from the Al-Monitor website revealed that Turkey recruits Syrian teenagers and sends them to Libya, among the mercenary groups through which it supports the Al-Wefaq government militia.
The report quoted Syrian and Libyan sources as saying the teens are part of Turkey-backed mercenary groups, explaining that false identity documents are issued to these children with false information about the date and place of their birth.
Since October last year, Turkey began sending Syrian mercenaries to Libya to fight alongside Al-Wefaq government forces against the Libyan army, the observatory said their number exceeded 8,000 fighters, in addition to the thousands who are currently receiving training. and they are waiting to join them on the various fronts of combat in Libya.
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