TUNIS - Tunisian authorities impounded a Turkish-operated ship transporting military vehicles, uniforms, transmission equipment and other supplies that would furnish a “camp of irregular military forces,” a spokesman for Tunisian Customs said. It was among a series of Turkish ships transporting weapons in the southern Mediterranean in recent years. In 2015, Greek authorities intercepted a Turkish ship off Crete on the way to Libya with 500,000 bullets hidden under support equipment. Tunisian authorities are constantly looking for jihadist threats from Tunisia’s land and sea borders with Libya. The United Nations imposed an arms embargo on Libya in 2011 to quell violence in the North African country.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 03, 2018 16:41 UTC