Turkey’s naval forces have conducted a joint military exercise with their Libyan counterparts off the coast of the North African country, in the central Mediterranean.
According to Turkish state-owned news agency Anadolu, the Turkish missile frigate TCG Gaziantep and the Libyan amphibious landing ship Ibn Ouf-132 participated in the maneuvers held off the Libyan coast, under the command of the Turkish naval forces.
The Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah added that the training included “a wide range of successfully completed maneuvers”, including visual communications between the two ships, strengthening “relations between the naval forces of the two countries”.