Libya’s Tripoli-based prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah signed two deals with Turkey’s defence minister on Tuesday (25 October), building on a 2019 agreement that angered European nations. The 2019 deal had seen Turkey claim large and potentially gas-rich areas of the eastern Mediterranean, angering Greece, France and the European Union. Athens says Turkey ‘blackmailed’ Libya to sign MoU by sending weapons Turkey blackmailed Libya to agree to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) demarcating maritime zones in the region by sending weapons to the country, Greek media quote a high-ranking diplomat as saying. Another deal signed by Dbeibah on Tuesday aims to “boost the capacity of Libya’s air force using Turkish expertise”, read the statement, accompanied by pictures of him with Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar. Dbeibah was in Turkey to visit a defence exhibition.

Source: Libya Today October 26, 2022 04:44 UTC