Update: On Thursday January 2nd, 2020, Turkish Parliament voted 325-184 to grant the government a one-year mandate to conduct military operations and deploy troops in Libya, according to France 24. In a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released soon after, Egypt condemned the move by Turkish Parliament to authorize military operations in Libya, calling it a “blatant” violation of international law. The Turkish government is seeking parliamentary approval to send troops to Libya, according to a statement by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bloomberg reports. The government has submitted a bill to grant the government a one-year mandate to conduct military operations in Libya and will be debated this Thursday by Turkish Parliament. The proposal would allow Turkey to deploy non-combatant troops to Libya to advise and support the Government of National Accord’s (GNA) forces in Tripoli. However, according to a senior Turkish official who spoke to Bloomberg last week, Turkey plans to send its navy to the Libyan capital to support the UN-backed GNA in its conflict against the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. The “limit, extent, amount and timing” of the military operation…
Everything You Need to Know About Turkey’s Military Intervention in Libya
December 31, 2019
