...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...deploy troops in the North African country. The assembly accused Libya’s official head of government, Fayez Serraj, of "treason."
Libya's eastern-based parliament on Saturday rejected an agreement that would allow Ankara to send troops to Libya.
The Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk voted against a deployment requested by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).
The Western-based GNA had requested help from Turkey, and the parliament in Ankara on Thursday voted in favor of the deployment of troops.
MORE THAN A REJECTION
As well as voting against the deployment and cooperation with Turkey, the HoR also voted unanimously to refer GNA Prime Minister Fayez Serraj to be prosecuted for "high treason" because of the deals signed with Ankara under his watch.
The Libyan deputies also voted to cut relations with Turkey.
Serraj's beleaguered government, which is based in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, has been under sustained attack by General Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
and his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).
Haftar ‐ who with his eastern power base is supported by the HoR ‐ has already seized the country's main oil fields and export terminals.
WHY DOES THE UN RECOGNIZE RIVAL BODIES?
The GNA is part of a UN-backed deal to bridge political differences between the rival administrations in the east and west.
However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
the eastern HoR has never endorsed the politically powerless GNA, as had been envisioned.
A PATRIOTIC CALL TO ARMS
After Turkey voted in favor of the deployment, Haftar on Friday urged all Libyans to take up arms against the foreign intervention.
Haftar said it was no longer a question of liberating Tripoli from the militias that overran it, but of "facing a colonizer." He accused Ankara of wanting to "regain control of Libya", a former province of the Ottoman Empire to which Turkey is the successor state.
Neighboring Egypt has also strongly condemned the
Libya has been beset by chaos since dictator Moammer Qadaffy was toppled and killed in a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-backed uprising in 2011.