Pathetic Trump might be qualified to “warn” Turkey against “foreign interference” after he ends his unprovoked criminal and inhumane occupation of one third of Syria. Personally, I wish Syria would seize one third of the US to even things out

12/2/19, "Turkey Signs Maritime Boundaries Deal With Libya, Bypassing Greece," Epoch Times, Ella Kietlinska 
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1/2/20, “Trump warns Turkey against ‘interference’ after Libya vote,” AFP, Ankara

[Map, US illegally occupies one third of Syria, in this map the yellow area attributed to “Kurds” as well as smaller, scattered US “no go” areas] 

“Turkey’s parliament has approved the deployment of troops to Libya aimed at shoring up the UN-backed government in Tripoli, sparking a blunt warning from US President Donald Trump against any “foreign interference” in the war-torn country. 

Libya has been beset by chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, with rival administrations in the east and the west vying for power. 

The beleaguered [UN backed] Tripoli government, headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, has been under sustained attack since April by military strongman General Khalifa Haftar, who is backed by Turkey’s regional rivals — Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. 

In response to the prospect that Ankara might intervene after Thursday’s vote, Trump had told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a call “that foreign interference is complicating the situation in Libya,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement. 

Egypt also strongly condemned the Turkish vote, saying it amounted to a “flagrant violation of international law and Security Council resolutions on Libya”, while Israel, Cyprus and Greece denounced a “dangerous threat to regional stability”. 

Libya’s elected parliament in the east–allied with Haftar–called Turkey’s prospective military intervention “high treason”. 

– ‘We are ready’ – 

President Erdogan is due to receive Russian President Vladimir Putin next Wednesday to inaugurate a new gas pipeline and Libya is expected to be a key topic of discussion. 

Erdogan has repeatedly accused Russia of sending private mercenaries to support Haftar’s forces, though this has been denied by Moscow. 

At the same time, Turkey and Russia have managed to work closely on the Syrian conflict despite supporting opposing sides, and are expected to seek a similar balancing act with regards to Libya. 

Erdogan’s office confirmed last Friday that a request for military support had been received from the internationally recognised Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).”…

 
 map from Epoch Times




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