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Turkey: army is deployed in Libya to protect rights and interests of the people May 5, 2021 at 12:12 pm | Published in: Africa, Europe & Russia, Libya, News, Turkey A Turkish military de-miner searches for landmines in the Salah al-Din area, south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on June 15, 2020 [MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images] May 5, 2021 at 12:12 pm Turkey has confirmed that its soldiers are deployed in Libya to protect the rights and interests of the Libyan people, Anadolu has reported. Defence Minister Hulusi Akar also stressed the importance of Libya's sovereignty and indepen...

Last Updated On: May 07 2021 09:06 Gmt+3 No top-ranking Turkish official seems to have been left out of the high-level delegation that visited Tripoli to meet Libyan officials on Monday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dispatched Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, Intelligence Chief Hakan Fidan and Chief of Staff Yaşar Güler to Tripoli to inform Libyan officials and regional countries that the Turkish intervention in Libya was not an accident and that Turkey is there to stay. Çavuşoğlu’s statements, in response to the call by his Libyan counte...