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  • 2021-05-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush told a visiting Turkish delegation in Tripoli on May 4.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets with Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, in Tripoli, May 3, 2021.But Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu responded that his country’s military came at the request of the Libyan government and should remain to train the Libyan troops. In January 2020, Turkey announced it has begun sending regular troops to aid the government in Tripoli, but Ankara has denied ties to foreign mercenaries in Libya.On May 6 in Germany, Cavusoglu said:We agree that all foreign mercenaries in Libya need to leave the country. But there are also bilateral agreements (with the Libyan government for Turkish troops to be stationed there). And that is a different issue. And we cannot and must not prevent such a cooperation. And one must not call those instructors mercenaries."That is misleading. The statement ignores multiple credible reports that Turkey has recruited Syrian mercenaries and sent them to fight in Libya by the thousands – even child fighters.The U.S. Defense Department's Inspector General concluded that in the first three months of 2020 (en)
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  • On May 4, Libya’s new interim government demanded that Turkey remove its forces from the country, which for the past decade has been riven with war involving foreign countries.We call on Turkey to cooperate with us to put an end to the presence of all foreign forces and mercenaries (en)
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