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2022-10-26 Africa North
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Libya, Turkey sign defense deals building on 2019 maritime border agreement
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[IsraelTimes] Ankara’s claim to potentially gas-rich areas of eastern Mediterranean angers Greece, La Belle France and EU, while Egypt rejects legitimacy of 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...
-based PM in divided Libya.
Libya’s Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah signed two deals with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s defense minister on Tuesday, building on a 2019 agreement that angered European nations.
Dbeibah’s administration posted a statement saying the deals included "implementation protocols for the security agreement" signed that year by authorities in Tripoli, who at the time were fending off a blistering assault by eastern-based military chief 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. Actually, he is, but slowly...
Tuesday’s statement did not give further details.
The 2019 deal had seen Turkey claim large and potentially gas-rich areas of the eastern Mediterranean, angering Greece, La Belle France and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Shortly afterwards, the delivery of Ottoman Turkish drones to Tripoli-based forces changed the course of the battle, winning them a victory over Haftar’s forces who were backed by Russia and the United Arab Emirates.
Another deal signed by Dbeibah on Tuesday aims to "boost the capacity of Libya’s air force using Ottoman Turkish expertise," read the statement, accompanied by pictures of him with Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
Dbeibah was in Turkey to visit a defense exhibition.
The latest deals come three weeks after Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu signed a deal in Tripoli allowing for oil and gas exploration in Libya’s Mediterranean waters.
That was also built on the 2019 deal, which demarcated the countries’ shared maritime borders but sparked anger in Greece and Cyprus.
The agreement was rejected by a rival administration in the war-torn country’s east, as well as neighboring Egypt, both of which argue that Dbeibah’s term as Libyan PM has expired.
Dbeibah came to power as part of a United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
-led grinding of the peace processor following the battle that had been sparked by Haftar’s attack on Tripoli.
That war was the last major round of violence in Libya’s long-running conflict which began with the 2011 NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-backed revolt that toppled dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
The country has since been plagued by divisions and today two rival administrations are vying for power: Dbeibah’s in the west and the government of former interior minister Fathi Bashagha, nominally backed by Haftar, in the east. 
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