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| Ministry of Foreign Affairs attacks Turkish President's 'blatant interference' |
| 2014-09-02 |
| [Libya Herald] The Foreign Ministry has attacked Turkish President Recep Erdogan following statements he allegedly made calling the meeting of the House of Representatives in Tobruk "improper". Erdogan is reported to have said that Turkey "fundamentally cannot accept the parliament meeting in Tobruk". The statement closely echoes those of the Misratan-led Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to bdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... Operation which also said yesterday that it would recognise the House of Representatives only if it met 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... The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was "surprised" by what it had perceived as the "blatant interference in Libyan internal affairs". It called on Erdogan to clarify his statements noting that he had congratulated the newly-elected House of Representatives after it held its first session in Tobruk in August. For its part, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has Turkey has condemned the Libyan position saying that any criticism of Erdogan's views was "unacceptable". "The questioning of Mr President's sincerity and feelings towards our Libyan brothers is, in the lightest way possible, totally unfair and unacceptable," Turkish Foreign Ministry front man Tanju Bilgic was quoted as saying by the Anadolu news agency. The Turkish government is widely viewed in Libya as supporting the Libyan Moslem Brotherhood since the revolution, alongside Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... . Libyan Moslem Brotherhood figures are known to visit Turkey regularly for meetings and use it as a safe haven. The significance of Libya within the context of the region's ideological fault-lines came to the fore last month when it emerged that the UAE and Egypt, both bitterly opposed to the brotherhood, had collaborated to bomb positions in Tripoli held by gangs sympathetic to the Islamist movement. The Tobruk-based Operation Dignity, which has offered protection to the House of Representatives, has been seen to have the backing of both Egypt and the UAE. Last week Emirati authorities rounded up at least 30 Libyan nationals believed to have ties to the Moslem Brotherhood and Libya Dawn. The Foreign Ministry reminded Turkish authorities that the the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... had recognised the legitimacy of the House of Representatives. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and the Gulf Cooperation Council have also recognised the new parliament. |
| Posted by:Fred |