Turkey's president said Thursday that the UN-supported government in Libya has asked Ankara to send troops to help authorities in Tripoli defend the city from an offensive by rival forces.
Turkish lawmakers could vote as early as next week on the move, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that his government will submit a bill to allow for the deployment of Turkish forces to Libya.
“We will go to places where we are invited to, and not go to places we are not invited to,” Erdogans aid. “At the moment, since there is such an invitation, we will accept this invitation,.” In related developments, a monitoring group that tracks Syria's civil war said Thursday that Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have opened four recruitment centres in northern Aleppo province for volunteer fighters for Libya. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the volunteers would be dispatched to Libya through Turkey and earn a lucrative monthly salary of about $1,800 to $2,000. There was no independent confirmation of the report.
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