The Chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri, was hosted by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Ankara today for talks on the situation in Libya, announced the Turkish top diplomat.
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The Libyan Government denied that Turkey sent an envoy to Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha, according to the Government’s Media and Communication Department.
The consulate general of Turkey in the city of Benghazi will return to provide services if conditions in the eastern region make it possible, Turkish Ambassador to Libya, Kenan Yilmaz, said on Wednesday.
Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, accompanied by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Council, Abdulla al-Lafi, met Tuesday in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish troops in Libya continue to provide training for military forces affiliated with the Government of National Unity, as per a statement of the Tripoli-based government’s Army Staff.
Armed groups loyal to Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh have 12 hours to leave Tripoli’s International Airport as per the orders of the Turkish military mission present in the capital, a source close to the leader of the Turkish mission tells The Libya Update.
U.N. Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, revealed she was in Istanbul on Thursday for talks about Libya with “senior representatives” from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the U.N. diplomat said via Twitter on Saturday.
Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh attended on Sunday a ceremony organized by the Turkish embassy in Libya to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2016 Turkish coup d’état attempt, which Ankara revived as ‘Democracy and National Unity Day’.
The European Naval Operation IRINI has revealed on Monday that Turkey refused to inspect its ships bound for the Libyan port of Misrata for the eighth time.
The Turkish government has continued its practice of deploying Syrian fighters to Libya, replacing those whose contracts have expired with…