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Turkey does not believe that a new interim government in Libya is helpful to the country, and will continue its support for the government of the incumbent Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the press on Wednesday.

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Three Turkish journalists were released on Tuesday, hours after being jailed over their coverage of the deaths of Turkish intelligence officers in Libya in 2020, a lawyer and opposition member said.
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Ali Dbeibeh, a member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), has been trying to lure Turkish officials into supporting the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, whose fate in power is threatened by the parliament’s decision to name Fathi Bashagha as new interim leader.

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Nearly 250 Syrian fighters, backed by Turkey, has left Libya to return to Syria on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

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A delegation of the Turkish Parliament is preparing to travel to Libya to hold a series of meetings with officials in Tripoli, Misurata and Benghazi, Turkish newspaper Zaman reports.

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The Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity, Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, has made a phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the Turkish presidency’s statement on Twitter.
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Head of the Tripoli-based High Council of State (HCS), Khaled al-Mishri, met Monday with Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, in Istanbul.
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Turkish Ambassador to Libya Kenan Yilmaz said Saturday his country’s presence in Libya was based on the memorandum of understanding signed with the former Government of National Accord (GNA), to provide consultations and training, and the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) is “authorized” to adopt the agreement.
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Naima Al-Hami, a member of the High Council of States, has criticized the international community’s call on foreign forces to leave Libya without defining who these forces are, adding that Libya needs Turkish forces “to preserve balance”.

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Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms, revealed in a recent report that Justice and Construction Party, a political party closely associated with the Libyan Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, used fake Turkey-based online accounts to make “inflammatory statements” and “encourage harassment”.

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