ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's parliament is to vote on Thursday on whether to send Turkish troops to Libya, to back the U.N.-supported government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival administration in eastern Libya seeking to capture the country's capital. The fighting has threatened to plunge Libya into violence rivaling the 2011 conflict that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. That deal, along with a separate agreement on maritime boundaries between Turkey and Libya, has drawn ire across the region and beyond. Details of the possible Turkish deployment have not been revealed. The motion to be debated in parliament allows the government to decide on the scope, amount and timing of the deployment.

Source: Libya Today January 02, 2020 07:30 UTC