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| Turkish Airlines Suspends All Flights to Libya |
| 2015-01-07 |
| [AnNahar] Turkish Airlines, the last remaining foreign carrier offering flights to Libya, said Tuesday it was suspending all flights to the conflict-wracked country amid the worsening security situation. The Turkish flag-carrier said that it had suspended flights to Misrata, its only remaining destination in the country after it had earlier pulled its flights to the capital 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... as well as Benghazi and the inland desert city of Sebha. "We have suspended our Misrata flights until further notice, due to operational issues," a company front man said in an email to Agence La Belle France Presse. "Turkish Airlines is not operating any scheduled flights to Libya at the moment," the front man added. The country has descended into chaos since dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... was tossed and killed in a 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising. It has rival governments and parliaments and is awash with arms and militias. Libya's internationally recognized government said Monday that its aircraft bombed an oil tanker off the Islamist-held port of Derna, killing two crewmen, one of them Greek, and drawing condemnation from Athens. |
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