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Libya National Army say 16 Turkish soldiers killed in fighting
[AlAhram] Forces loyal to Libya National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
 said on Sunday they had killed 16 Ottoman Turkish soldiers in recent weeks, a day after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
 acknowledged it had lost several "deaders" in combat in the north African country.
Khalid al-Mahjoub, a front man for Haftar's LNA, said the Turks were killed in the port city of Misrata, in battles in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
 and in the town of al-Falah south of the capital.

Turkey backs Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) and has sent Syrian soldiers along with some of its own soldiers and weapons to help the Tripoli-based administration repel an attempt by the LNA to capture the city.

Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday acknowledged some Ottoman Turkish losses in Libya's "struggle".

"We are there (in Libya) with our (Ottoman Turkish) soldiers and our teams from the Syrian National Army. We continue the struggle there. We have several deaders. In return, however, we neutralized nearly a hundred (of Haftar's) legionaries," Erdogan said.
So that’s ten, then.
The Syrian National Army, also known as Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, is a Turkey-backed Syrian rebel group fighting against pro-Damascus forces in northern Syria, where 16 Ottoman Turkish soldiers have been killed so far this month.

Ceasefire talks between Libya's warring sides resumed on Thursday after the GNA had pulled out of negotiations following the shelling of Tripoli's port by Haftar's forces.
A waste of time, but necessary to keep certain parties from fussing.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-02-24
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