Erdogan trying to cover up his human losses by sending ISIS to Libya

Mustafa Kamel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to cover up the specific human losses he has received – and remains in Libya – as a result of his blatant interference there, by sending his mercenaries from the Ankara-backed factions to stand alongside the Al-Wefaq militia against the Libyan National Army.

This comes by adapting all the means of the Turkish state from bringing intelligence and security under his command to cover up this matter, in addition to playing the Ottoman Aga on the ISIS card in Libya, in order to stay with the Libyan accord government forces as much as possible, by sending them with the Syrian mercenaries to Libya without looking to confront the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Cover up the losses by arrest

Erdogan sought to subdue all the agencies to work under his command, after news spread that a number of Turkish intelligence agents had been killed in Libya, as politicians were interrogated and investigated.

The Turkish authorities arrested six Turkish journalists, in addition to demanding the lifting of the immunity of a number of Turkish parliamentarians, due to the publication of reports or blogs about the dead Turkish people in Libya, and lifting the immunity of MP Umit Ozdag after he held a press conference at the parliament’s headquarters in February.

During the conference, he revealed information that the Turkish intelligence services were killed in military operations in Libya, and that these dead were buried without doing the usual rituals held for soldiers killed in the fighting.

Erdogan’s arms inside Turkey were not satisfied with concealing the losses caused to him due to his blatant interference in Libya, but security forces arrested Baris Turkoglu, the news director of the Oda T news site, and the correspondent of the site, Holia Kilinche, after they published news about Turkish intelligence agents being killed in Libya.

The Turkish President subdued all the means of the Turkish state under his command, as he moved the public prosecutor to take measures against those who talked about the killing of members of the Turkish intelligence in Libya, as well as the exit of the media close to Erdogan’s government, saying that the reports mentioned in those newspapers violated a law prohibiting disclosure of the identity of intelligence agents.

Daesh paper to stay in Libya

At the same time, ISIS operatives in Libya have become the card that the Ottoman Agha plays to stay as much as possible there, and send more mercenaries to Libya without looking to confront the outbreak of the coronavirus and adhere to WHO’s instructions to move from one country to another to confront the crisis.

The Turkish government – headed by Erdogan, took advantage of the international community’s preoccupation with coronavirus and continues to send mercenaries to Libya, not only from the mercenary factions loyal to Ankara involved in the so-called national army, but there are also elements of ISIS from the Syrian Badia and the sons of Deir Al-Zour.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed that about 28 members of the terrorist organization who retired from fighting with the organization in Syria joined mercenaries in Libya.

The Turkish authorities intensified the gathering of terrorist elements fleeing battles in Syria, especially members of the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham – Jabhat al-Nusra -, as it embarked on airlifting them to Libyan territory to support armed militias deployed in the capital, Tripoli.