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Italian media reported that Turkish fighter jets were flying over the Sirte and Jufrah regions, after Haftar’s forces stopped a Turkish freighter that entered the waters of eastern Libya.
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The website of the “Rai” television station stated that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened severe retaliation after Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces “seized control” of a Turkish-owned freighter flying the Jamaican flag after entering an “area of military operations” off the coast of the Ras Al Hilal region.
In this regard, he noted, “the escalation of tension between Turkey and General Khalifa Haftar, a strongman from Cyrenaica, and Ankara threatens to have” serious consequences “if the Turkish ship detained by the Field Marshal’s forces is not immediately released. and its 17 crew members are released.
The Italian television station reported that there had been news in recent hours, “of Turkish military flights in the Sirte and Jufrah regions, along the armistice line between the two armies that have been facing each other for months.”
The source defined Turkey as “one of the main supporters of the Government of National Accord, with which it has signed two agreements since November 2019, one to demarcate the maritime borders and the other for military cooperation between Ankara and Tripoli.”
The Italian television network continued in this regard, noting that “the second agreement was specifically related to the major military operation by which Turkey rescued the government of Fayez al-Sarraj from the siege of Haftar’s militia and its allies in June of this year”.
Source: rainews.it
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