He told the Libya Herald that reports quoting him as saying that Ambassador Abdulrazak Abdulqader had been recalled from Ankara because of a row between the House of Representatives and Turkey were false. He added that he was frustrated with the media for making the claims. Abdulqader was still in Turkey, he said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system...
however, businessmen in Tobruk have said they will boycott Turkish goods over the spat.
The hostilities were prompted by comments from Turkish President Recep Erdogan on Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
TV. He reportedly said that Turkey could not accept the Libyan legislature's meeting in Tobruk, a statement that has been made in the past by 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...
, the coalition of Misratan-led gangs currently controlling 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...
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On Monday 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.
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.