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On December 27th, Libya’s UN-assigned Government of National Accord (GNA) formally requested “air, ground and sea” military support from Turkey, to fight against Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA).
The country’s interior minister said that the GNA will ask Turkey for military support if the fight over Tripoli escalates.
“We cannot stay idly when the UN-recognized Libyan government demands our help,” Ankara Deputy Emrullah İşler said in a tweet late in the same day.
“As Turkey, we will accept the invitation of legitimate Libyan government, with whom we have a history of relations spanning 361 years,” he added.
In response, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Turkish parliament would quickly introduce a bill to approve a military deployment to Libya.
The military mandate to send troops to Libya will be on Parliament’s agenda when it resumes on January 7th, the bill could be approved in the next day or two, and then a deployment can happen immediately.
“Since there is an invitation [from Libya] right now, we will accept it,” Erdogan told members of his AK Party. “We will present the motion to send troops [to Libya] as soon as Parliament resumes.”
“God willing, we will pass it in Parliament on January 8-9 and thus respond to an invitation” from the Tripoli-based GNA, he said.
Erdogan made his announcement after he returned from Tunisia, where he visited to try and gather support for the GNA.
Initially, Turkey and the GNA announced that Tunisia would also join the conflict in support for the UN-assigned government, but Tunisian President Qais Saeed denied the reports, saying that no such thing would happen.
Tunisia demanded that Interior Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bashagha, leaves its territories and apologizes for his latest remarks, in which he claimed that Tunisia is in an “alliance” with Turkey to confront “mercenaries affiliated with Khalifa Haftar”. Fathi Bashagha claimed that Tunisia and Algeria would “fall” to Haftar and his allies after Tripoli falls.
#Breaking –
#Libyan Interior Minister Fathi #Bashagha warns "#Tunis & #Algiers will fall if #Tripoli falls" into the hands of #Haftar & allies.#Libya #Turkey #Tunisia #Algeria #Africa #Europe #Berlinale2020 #Sarraj #Erdogan #Egypt #UAE pic.twitter.com/MH2wwcsTEp— Mourad Teyeb (@MouradTeyeb) December 26, 2019
statement came in response to statements made by Erdogan today about #Libya after his return to #Turkey, as well as statements by Fathi Pashaga on what he called "the Libyan-Tunisian-Algerian-Turkish alliance", pic.twitter.com/FvWyfADuL1
— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) December 27, 2019
Also, in the region, an Algerian politician, Abdul Wahhab Bin Zaim said that his country would never enter the Libyan conflict.
#Algerian parliament member Abdul Wahhab Bin Zaim.
The Libyan conflict is very important to us and we will never have a military intervention in Libya and our history goes back to the #war of #independence, and will not accept any foreign #military intervention in #Libya. pic.twitter.com/Alp9iOD0xa— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) December 27, 2019
The Sudanese military requested Turkish President to clarify his claims of Sudanese mercenaries being present in the Libyan conflict, and urged Turkey to keep out of the fight.
#Sudanese army urging #Erdogan to clarify his statements on Sudanese mercenaries in #Libya.
And states that Libyan conflict is not of #Turkish business. pic.twitter.com/IfdiLnFSrb— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) December 26, 2019
On December 26th, the LNA reportedly hit Turkish-supplied weapons and equipment in their airstrikes.
The #LNA airstrike in #AlZawia.
2 hits
1) Alfarouq military base on a Turkish BMC.
2) a car with high value Alqaida personal 200 meters from the entrance of the camp.
It worth saying that AlFarouq militia is one of the hand of #AlQaida in libya.
All pic.twitter.com/1509Nn4KgU— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) December 26, 2019
The LNA is making progress in parts of Tripoli, according to reports and videos.
شاهد | #الجيش_الليبي يسيطر على حي الزهور في منطقة صلاح الدين بـ #طرابلس pic.twitter.com/Ie69eOggYv
— الحدث (@AlHadath) December 26, 2019
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spoke on the phone to President Trump about the vital role played by the LNA against terrorism and the importance of undermining militias that jeopardize regional security. He stressed the need to halt external interference in Libya. Egypt and the UAE are the main backers of the LNA and it’s expected that they will react harshly to a Turkish military intervention in the country.
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Sure Crypto-Jew Erdogan will be very Happy to support the GNA…he will be very glad to send his Turkish Servants to Die for the good cause of Rothschild…Hey but remember GNA…ISIS-Lover & Headchopper Supporter Dönmeh Erdogan wants some Favors & Oil in return for his support….He wants to become the New Kaiser of the Türkish Öttoman Reich
Air, ground and sea military support? Keep on dreaming GNA, not going to happen. Would you settle for some NSA and FSA trash transported from N Syria?
Maybe Erdogan will send in the prepubescent fighting girls?
Let’s see what the Turkish people think, when their loved ones begin to arrive back home in droves, in their bodybags. The LNA are on a roll with the full support of the Libyan people and neighbouring countries, who all know why Libya is the way it is. The sooner the LNA win this battle for Libya, the better for everyone, except the usual suspects.
just shoot down the first few troop transports, and the deployment will end as fast as it began…