Libyan tribes: Spear in chest of Erdogan and his thugs

Aya Ezz

Widespread anger has permeated throughout Libya’s tribes due to Turkey’s interference wreaking havoc on Libya. The tribal leaders have therefore have completely lined up behind the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar to face the ambitions of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the barbarity of his mercenaries.

The head of Libya’s Supreme Tribal Council, Saleh Al-Fandi, and his deputy, Sheikh Al-Senussi al-Haliq, affirmed the council’s rejection of Turkey’s interference in the country and urged the Libyan people to stand by the LNA in the face of Ankara’s ambitions.

“The tribes will defend Libya with full force, and they have nearly a million citizens who are ready and trained to take up arms to push them to the battlefields in the face of Erdogan’s gangs,” Fandi said, adding that the Libyan people are fed up with the mercenaries’ activities.

Meanwhile, Abdul Karim al-Orfi, the official spokesman for the Supreme Tribal Council, announced the preparation of lists of young volunteers to be trained and armed.

All the tribes have opened the door for young people to volunteer to fight against the Turkish colonialists who are greedy for their country’s wealth and resources, Orfi said, adding that each tribe has prepared a list of names of young people who would be trained and armed in coordination between the LNA and Egypt.

Orfi stressed that the tribes will not allow the Brotherhood to plunder Libya’s wealth and will stand in the way of Erdogan’s ambitions and dreams of controlling their land.

According to the Turkish opposition newspaper Zaman, Erdogan has bypassed all the political and social rights of the Libyan tribes and people in terms of stability and security by means of his mercenaries and soldiers.

The newspaper said that the militias have violated the sanctity of Libyan homes, and had it not been for the tribesmen to confront them, the violations would have affected women. In addition, the mercenaries have tried to seize many lands in order to settle there, but their attempts failed after they were confronted by tribesmen.

Libyan political analyst Magdy Ismail told the Reference that arming the Libyan tribes will form a strong army to support the LNA and fight Turkey’s militias and the Government of National Accord (GNA). He pointed out that the tribes have had enough of Ankara’s provocations. Erdogan has repeatedly tried to recruit members of the tribes to work for the Turkish agenda, but his attempt failed miserably as a result of the tribes’ commitment to the stability and security of their homeland.