Who has what business in Libya?

Türkiye's agreement with the Government of National Accord in Libya has completely changed the course of a process that has been going on in the field for 5 years. Just as, with its maritime boundary agreement, again with Libya, in the Mediterranean, it completely canceled the calculations of everyone who had calculations in the Mediterranean. Türkiye's entry into the field, which can be considered relatively late, had until now, taking advantage of the field being empty, whetted the appetites of those with no right whatsoever either in the Mediterranean or in Libya, and had produced a greedy and unjust partnership of partition.

With both of its steps, Türkiye has rendered these unjust partition partnerships inoperable. While countries in the Mediterranean were dividing up all the maritime areas through bilateral, trilateral and quadrilateral agreements, Türkiye was being limited as if it could not even cast a line off its own shores. Yet thanks to the agreement it made with Libya at a moment no one expected, with its entry into the field, Türkiye became the party that has the last word in the whole of the Mediterranean. Now everyone is forced to redo their calculations. Türkiye, for its part, states that it has no eye on anyone's right and only stipulates that if there is to be a partition, it should be a fair one.

In the Libyan theater, the situation is even more interesting. There is a people living there, and this people has a land. With the overthrow of Gaddafi, there are states that have swarmed in to hand out the lands of this now headless people as spoils. Had the process the Libyan people started after the revolution to form their own self-rule, administration and institutions reached its end, there would have been nothing anyone could do. There would have been no way left to seize these appetite-whetting lands. It was precisely for this reason that that process had to be interrupted on some pretext.

This path was opened by taking shelter behind the putschist retired general Khalifa Haftar. The legitimacy Haftar lacked has so far been sought to be made up for by de facto armed force. The violence that such a power, which derives its legitimacy from arms and violence, displays in order to prove itself has amply fallen within the scope of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Even so, it cannot be said that he has been sufficiently successful. Despite all the support, he dragged the job out longer than necessary and could not produce a success that would topple the legitimate government. Although, just as he was about to make the final move, Türkiye stood before him.

With Türkiye's entry into the field at the official request of the legitimate government and under an agreement, not only did all the balances in the field change, but both the failure of Haftar and of all the powers behind him, and the fact that they have no legitimacy or rightfulness whatsoever, came out as clear as day.

Pay no attention to their asking what business Türkiye has in Libya. In fact this question is a product of the haste shown so as not to face the question of what business they themselves have in Libya. Otherwise Türkiye is the only country that does not need to explain why it is in Libya right now. Because Türkiye is the only country that is there at the invitation of the legitimate Libyan Government of Accord, recognized by the international community, and within the framework of an agreement whose every boundary has been transparently determined and announced.

What business does the BAE have in Libya, for example, which has no border with Libya or even the Mediterranean and which cannot be linked to any matter concerning Libya? What is it looking for there? Other than kindling the fire of sedition there as everywhere, and having Muslim peoples slaughter one another, what is it seeking that would be for the good of the Libyans? In Yemen, which it has a border with and which it entered 6 years ago, is there a stone left upon a stone? You have no ability to solve problems, yet you stick your nose into everything! If you had it, you would have solved the problem in Yemen. Let alone solving problems, you have no function other than creating problems where there are none, destabilizing countries and producing sedition. Moreover, until Türkiye reached its agreement with the Government of National Accord, the BAE was concealing that it openly supported Haftar. When Türkiye entered, it too began to reveal itself.

The same goes for Russia. Russia has no official and legitimate agreement on which it relies to support Haftar. That is why Russia, as a state, is not in Libya. It carries on its activities through the private security company Wagner. That company, with Türkiye's support, in the recent operations suffered serious casualties from the counterattacks of the UMH forces and was forced to withdraw. Most recently, two days ago, Russia landed 15 military cargo planes at the airport of the city of Bani Walid to evacuate the mercenaries affiliated with this company that had withdrawn from Tripoli. But in return for this withdrawal, Russia began to make its place in the equation explicit by transferring warplanes to Libya through the new air bridge it has built from Syria, and thus taking Wagner out of the picture.

We are not even mentioning France and Egypt. All these countries, while giving Haftar every kind of support up to now, refrained from appearing officially at his side, from appearing to support him officially. Yet Türkiye's entry onto the stage has made everyone reveal where they stand.

So it happened, but how will it go from here? With the parties caught virtually red-handed, will they feel the need to explain what business they have in Libya? Or will they keep asking, with the same shamelessness, what business Türkiye has?