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On June 24th, Turkish Parliament speaker Mustafa Shantoub said that if French President Emmanuel Macron was interested in peace in Libya, France should stop supporting Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
#Breaking_News
Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Shantoub: If the French president is interested in peace in Libya, as he claims, he should give up dragging the country into chaos by supporting Haftar.#Libya pic.twitter.com/zCX61xfmPB— Arraed LG+ (@ArraedLG) June 24, 2020
Ankara also said that it was France who was playing a “dangerous game” in Libya, and not Turkey.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the allegations of Russian mercenaries in Libya were from dubious sources and that they should be investigated thoroughly.
الخارجية الروسية تقول إن مزاعم الوجود العسكري الروسي في ليبيا تستند لمصادر محل شك وموسكو تطالب بالتحقيق في التقارير
— سكاي نيوز عربية-عاجل (@SkyNewsArabia_B) June 23, 2020
Meanwhile, Aguila Saleh Issa, the president of the Libyan House of Representatives, based in Tobruk said that the “Libyan people” are officially asking Egypt to intervene with military forces if the need for this arises.
#القاهرة — عقيلة صالح: الشعب الليبي يطلب رسميا من مصر التدخل بقوات عسكرية إذا اقتضت الضرورة
— ا لـ حـ ـد ث (@AlHadath) June 24, 2020
According to Saleh, this would be a legitimate intervention if the Turkish-backed militants, and the Government of National Accord’s (GNA) forces crossed “the red line.”
#القاهرة — عقيلة صالح: التدخل المصري سيكون دفاعا شرعيا عن النفس إذا تجاوزت الميليشيات الخط الأحمر
— ا لـ حـ ـد ث (@AlHadath) June 24, 2020
This red line means a breakthrough by the GNA in Sirte, for which a fight is brewing, but is still calm.
#القاهرة — عقيلة صالح: في حال "اختراق" سرت سنطلب مساندة القوات المصرية
— ا لـ حـ ـد ث (@AlHadath) June 24, 2020
Finally, Saleh said that Turkey had brought more than 15,000 mercenaries to Tripoli.
عقيلة صالح: تركيا جلبت أكثر من 15 ألف مسلح من المرتزقة إلى العاصمة الليبية طرابلس
— سكاي نيوز عربية-عاجل (@SkyNewsArabia_B) June 24, 2020
Hours earlier, on the evening of June 23rd, Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said that Egypt aimed to start a ceasefire in Libya and initiate a peace process.
وزير الخارجية المصري لسكاي نيوز عربية: نهدف إلى وقف إطلاق النار بليبيا والبدء في عملية سياسية
— سكاي نيوز عربية-عاجل (@SkyNewsArabia_B) June 23, 2020
He did, however, also say that Egypt opposes any terrorists and their supports and would not allow Libya to fall in the hands of militants.
▪️Mısır Dışişleri Bakanı Shoukry:
➖“Mısır, teröre ve destekçilerine tolerans göstermeyecek.”
➖“Mısır, Libya’nın terör örgütlerinin ve milis gruplarının eline geçmemesi için elinden geleni yapacak.”— Bedrettin (@bedbolukbasi) June 23, 2020
Egypt, hosting a meeting of the Arab League, proposed a draft resolution on rejecting and preventing any foreign interference in Libya, which is entirely aimed against Turkey.
مشروع قرار مصري في الجامعة العربية: رفض ومنع التدخلات الخارجية بليبيا #العربية_عاجل https://t.co/a1vIGVFnOW
— العربية عاجل (@AlArabiya_Brk) June 23, 2020
There were reports that shelling by the GNA had begun on LNA positions in Sirte, but those were denied.
عاجل | الجيش الليبي ينفي أي استهداف لمواقعه من قبل الميليشيات في سرت https://t.co/5t3eIvPjBE pic.twitter.com/P5K4BD4vND
— صحيفة الشرق الأوسط (@aawsat_News) June 23, 2020
It would appear that the anti-aircraft missile system of the LNA was being tested around Sirte.
No air strikes or clashes in or around Sirte today . This was a test of an LNA anti aircraft missile system pic.twitter.com/0NW7koNqDr
— Ali Ahmed (@LibyaPro2) June 23, 2020
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The Wahhabi of the KSA and the Muslim Brotherhood are both Salafist Sunni, ‘original’ or ‘pure’ or so they claim. Turkey and its Muslim Brotherhood must not win in Libya. Greece, Cyprus and France best back Egypt or the Turks will take Europe.
Not back Egypt but back the LNA, also fuck France.
Did they finally wake up? They took their time for sure… Should be interesting, Turkish and Egyptian army has about the same. strenght.
Egyptian and Wagner Airborne into Zliten, French/Italian marines amphibious landing at Alera’aar and LNA/Egyptian Armored Corp mechanized assault left-hook from south east towards Misrata city.
You have no idea – Italy fully support GNA Quisling Regime and Turkey – Italy has base in MISRATA ! Egypt will never dare confront NATO Turkey – if they were serious they would have deployed months ago – no way Egypt can move an Armored CORPS !! into Libya 1 000 km to Sirt front.
Simply a hypothetical, I wouldn’t get too hot under the collar about it…
You could always exchange Italian for Greek if you want to.
Don’t do impossible btw.
Go home turkey, you are being used by america to destroy europe, you are being set up like germany was eons ago.
erdogan should stay in libya and gear up and out haftar and secure the economic zones all the way from libya up to turkey (and thereby stopping the jewish plan to bring the gas the jews have stolen from the palestinians to the european market). another opener would be to take the rest of cyprus and invoke the same principles the ever evil jews in palestine are invoking when planning to take over the jordan valley. if it’s acceptable to the world in one place it should be acceptable in other places as well. india/pakistan in kashmir, india/china etc.
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Egypt should be clever and should not act as a puppet of the imperialist powers. Otherwise the Turkish navy and air forces will teach them a good lesson.
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Come on Egypt, take no prisoners. Not one turkISIS cockroach left alive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxaxZ5AdmnI
Turkisis chickens enter Greek FIR and always run back to Anatolia every time !
https://youtu.be/0GGNbgV4crk?t=112
Hmmm nooo Egypt will not enter with full force in Libya, not all countries are like Russia, on request to come and help militarily. Egypt will deny this.