2 Turkish military cargo planes arrive in Libya

Turkey continues to intervene in the Libyan crisis by sending military supplies and mercenaries, which witnessed earlier exchange of accusations between the army and the Accord forces of carrying out military build-ups on the outskirts of the red line Sirte – al-Jufrah.

The Libyan News Observatory said that two Turkish A400 military cargo planes, coming from Ankara, landed at the bases of Misurata and al-Watiyah.

This comes after the Commander of the Libyan army, Khalifa Haftar, hinted on Thursday to return to arms unless the Turkish forces and their mercenaries withdraw from the country, indicating the possibility of a return to fighting, the fall of the truce and the progress achieved by the recent negotiations between the two parties under the auspices of the United Nations.

Yesterday, Haftar gave Turkey a choice to leave or war, during a speech he delivered during a ceremony of the General Command in the city of Benghazi on the occasion of the 69^th anniversary of Libya's independence, saying: "There is no value for independence, no sense of freedom, no security, no peace, and the feet of the Turkish army contaminate our pure land, and there is no choice for the occupying enemy unless to leave peacefully and voluntarily, or by force of arms and strong will."

Regarding Turkish plans, Haftar added: "The era of your colonial illusions is over, and you have to choose whether to leave or war."

In addition, the Libyan army commander renewed accusations against Turkey and its mercenaries of mobilizing for war, saying: "The aggressor did not stop sending mercenaries and weapons of all kinds, announcing war on the Libyans, defying the Libyan will and underestimating human values."

Haftar called on "the officers, soldiers and Libyans all to get ready as long as Turkey rejects the logic of peace, in order to expel the occupier with will and peace."

He considered that "the decisive confrontation began to loom with the monitoring of maneuvers and mobilization of Turkey's mercenaries and their recruits near the lines of contact, the accumulation of weapons and equipment, in addition to the building of bases and military operation rooms."

Thus, the talks among the Libyan parties stalled last week after they achieved an important consensus on setting a date for the national elections in December of next year.

The pace of military threats between the two parties to the conflict in Libya increased, after mutual accusations between the army and the Accord forces to carry out military build-ups on the borders of the red line Sirte – al-Jufra area, amid a threat to move the fighting axes again, which may disturb the atmosphere of calm witnessed in the country since the declared cease-fire agreement between the Government of National Accord and the Libyan Parliament.