Al Jazeera: Erdogan announces plan to send troops to Libya
Turkish PM to seek his parliament's support in January following Tripoli-based govt's request for military backing.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced military backing for Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), now that the north African country requested it.
In a speech in Ankara on Thursday, Erdogan said on January 7 he will present a bill to the Turkish Parliament on deployment legislation.
"Since there is an invitation [from Libya] right now, we will accept it," Erdogan told members of his AK Party. "We will present the motion to send troops [to Libya] as soon as Parliament resumes."
"God willing, we will pass it in Parliament on January 8-9 and thus respond to an invitation" from the Tripoli-based GNA, he said.
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WNU Editor: Turkey's President is also trying to find allies to assist him in his military involvement in Libya's civil war .... Erdogan in Tunisia for surprise visit to discuss Libya (AP). More here .... Erdogan makes surprise visit to Tunisia as tensions rise over Libya (Middle East eye).
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6 comments:
Let's posit that Tunisia allows him to use Tunisia as a transit point to open an eastern front on the Libyan Civil war.
What if Wagner and the Libyans defeat Turkish forces?
It would be bad juju for Erdogan. JO's have overthrown governments before. In Portugal JO's overthrew a dictatorship in 74. They were tired of fighting in Angola. Erdogan might have purged and repurged the Turkish military, but losses would leave him (or any strongmam) vulnerable.
Israel will certainly help fight Turkey in Libya.
There it is big war coming
All the officer corps is still in prison. Only the ideologues and the toadies are left. Actual combat operations should prove very interesting.
It'll be the bestest war evah!!!!!
WW2 was so bad the communists had to release officers imprisoned by Stalin to competently lead troops to fight the Germans.
"Without a doubt, Stalin wanted to eliminate specific top officers and commissars whom he unjustifiably suspected of outright disloyalty to him, failing to support his policies, or being unreliable in a crisis. Among those purged were some of his best officers, notably Robert Eideman, Iona Iakir, Innokentii Khalepskii, August Kork, Aleksandr Sediakin, Aleksandr Svechin, Mikhail Tukhachevskii, and Ieronim Uborevich, while Stalin’s incompetent cronies—Marshals Semen Budenny, Grigori Kulik, and Kliment Voroshilov survived."
www.historynet.com/stalin-attacks-red-army.htm
Is Erdogan a good student of history or does he study it with Hitler tinted lenses?
"It'll be the bestest war evah!!!!!"
+4 cringe factor
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