The head of the Turkish intelligence service arrived in Libya just five days after the departure of the director of the CIA William Burns, who had gone to the country to meet with the Libyan interim prime minister Dbeibah and also Marshal Haftar from whom he asked for specific things.
The head of the MIT, Hakan Fidan, also met yesterday with Al Menfi, who is the head of the Presidential Council. Present at the meeting was the head of Libya's intelligence service, Lt. Gen. Hussein al-Ayeb, according to the Presidential Council's media office.
Before his meeting, the head of the Turkish intelligence service met with the head of the interim Libyan government, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mangous, and the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Jumaa and some others.
The Libyan government's statement said Dbeibah discussed with the head of the MIT in his office in Tripoli, issues of common interest, local, regional and international.
The Turkish intelligence chief's visit comes five days after CIA Director visited Tripoli and Benghazi last Thursday, during which he met with Dbeibah and the commander of Benghazi forces, Marshal Haftar.
Libya in the focus of USA and Turkey
In an article titled "The Road to Tripoli," a Libyan newspaper reported that the Libyan issue has returned to the center of the international agenda, citing that a recent meeting between CIA Director William Burns and Libyan officials confirms this fact.
She says the US priority is to drive Wagner's Russian mercenaries out of Eastern Libya.
Achieving this goal depends on the agreement of all Libyan warlords, starting with Khalifa Haftar. For decades, the CIA had hosted Haftar in the US as an alternative to Muammar Gaddafi.
The Russia-Ukraine war has changed the balance in the Mediterranean region, highlighting the area south of Crete as the geographical point where Greece and Turkey will clash.
In our article we mentioned that the Turks, with the recent illegal pact they signed with their straw man Dbeibah in Libya for the joint mining-exploitation of hydrocarbons that are in the ground and the EEZ of the country in question, tried to achieve the following:
- To cancel the Greece-Egypt agreement on the EEZ as well as their energy interconnection through an electricity transmission cable from the coast of Egypt to Crete.
- To prevent Greece from extending its territorial waters to 12 nm, south of Crete, which Foreign Minister Dendias had said was probably our next step.
- To appropriate part of the Greek EEZ, sharing with Libya, as well as its hydrocarbon deposits.
- To show our country Internationally as a troublemaker, since with their actions they push us to break with Libya.
- To legitimize their henchman Dbeibah, who in fact has absolutely no authority to sign agreements with third countries, making a government partner even in a government of common acceptance in Libya that they are diligently preparing.
- To make Libya their military satellite, training Libyan pilots and sending drones to their base in Misrata in that country.
It is no secret that in addition to supporting the Libyan government, which is ideologically close to him, Erdogan has repeatedly stated that Libya's oil and gas resources were important factors in Turkey's interest in the country.