Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is preparing for troop deployment to Libya, says the prolongation of the Libyan conflict could plunge the North African country into “chaos” and turn it into another Syria. “If today Libya becomes like Syria, then the turn will come for the other countries in the region,” Cavusoglu said at a meeting of the governing AK Party in the capital, Ankara, on Saturday. On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara had received that request and that the Turkish parliament would soon authorize the dispatch of troops to Libya. The Libyan government has been fighting an offensive by militia under the command of renegade General Khalifa Haftar near the capital for nine months. Haftar’s forces have previously seized and searched a Turkish vessel, suspecting that it was carrying weapons for the government.

Source: Libya Today December 29, 2019 13:52 UTC