3 reasons why Turkey is trying to occupy Libya

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to invade Libya only to acquire Libyan oil, which has a value of 3 trillion dollars in natural gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean.

Turkey is seeking through its military intervention in Libya to take advantage of oil and gas, as well as reconstruction deals estimated at about 18 billion dollars.

For these reasons, Ankara has supported the Saraj government to make it easier for it to demarcate the sea border and expand its economic areas in Libya.

The situation in Libya represents a fertile environment for achieving a number of goals for Turkey, including providing a safe haven for ISIS in the Middle East, and granting Turkey wide influence on Libyan soil, which gives it a share of Libyan oil.

Turkey aims to obtain the largest possible number of reconstruction projects in Libya, by pushing Turkish contracting companies to work in Libya, as well as compensating the economic losses suffered by Turkey in Libya after the fall of the Gaddafi regime.

Erdogan’s greed for the wealth of others is not strange, as his Ottoman grandparents preceded it, as they mastered imposing taxes and royalties on the Libyan people, even as it was a major resource for the Sultanate’s budget.

The Ottoman state forced adult males to pay 40 piasters annually, and imposed similarly on animals and trees, and those who abstained were punished with 3 months imprisonment, and they imposed a jihadist tax on Libyans during the Greek war of 1897, in addition to the ten-year tax on farmers.