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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said on Tuesday that Turkey had done and would do its part for a ceasefire and peace in Libya.
"It is clear who wants peace or war, who wants or doesn’t want unity in Libya. Turkey did its part to promote a cease-fire and peace in Libya under the leadership of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan " he said.
The warring sides of the Libyan crisis announced a fragile ceasefire on Jan. 12.
The heads of the sides met in Moscow on Monday to sign a ceasefire deal in order to end nine months of heavy fighting.
After negotiations, which were held in order to agree on an unconditional and open-ended ceasefire in Libya, the head of the United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, signed the draft ceasefire agreement, however his rival, Commander of eastern-based forces, Khalifa Hafter, asked for more time to make a decision.
Since the summer of 2014, political power has been split between two rival governments in Tripoli and in Tobruk, with the latter having been recognized by the international community before the creation of the Presidency Council (PC) – the body that acts collectively as head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces – in December 2015. (ILKHA)
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Turkish Coast Guard teams rescued 23 irregular migrants, including three children, off the coast of Ayvacık district in Çanakkale after they were reportedly pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek authorities.
Prof. Dr. Safi Arpaguş, the mufti of Istanbul, has been appointed as the new president of Türkiye’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), according to a presidential decree published Thursday in the Official Gazette.
As the new academic year begins, the Hope Caravan Association (Umut Kervanı Derneği) has once again stepped forward to support students in need by distributing essential stationery supplies in Kocaeli.
Türkiye has issued one of its strongest condemnations yet of Israel’s ongoing assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, warning that the humanitarian disaster has reached an “unbearable threshold” and urging the international community to take immediate action.
