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2021-08-09 Africa North

What Does Turkey's Erdogan Want from Southern Libya?

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Posted by Fred 2021-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Seems to me he is trying to expand the Ottoman empire he thinks he has.

Posted by Chris 2021-08-09 00:29|| 2021-08-09 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe Erdy just wants a giant sandbox to play Calvinball in. That's what I would want if I were twelve.

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-09 00:40|| 2021-08-09 00:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Ottoman Empire included northern part of Libya but not the southern part.

So, Erdogan, if he had the southern part could fancy himself as more wonderful than Sultan X of blessed memory

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-09 07:55|| 2021-08-09 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 There is quite a bit of oil in southern Libya and potentially huge 5 billion metric tons of iron ore in the central southwest area.

Neither have, to date, been extensively developed for extraction.

They'll have to wrestle the Chinese for both as there are existing China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) holdings for both products.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-09 09:18|| 2021-08-09 09:18|| Front Page Top

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