The question now in Libya: can one sit at the table with coup-making and occupying criminals?

The Libyan UMH Army, advancing with Turkey's support, has been scoring successive victories against the coup-making Haftar in recent days. After Tripoli, al-Washka and Tarhuna, and after Sirte too was taken from Haftar's hands, Libyan army units turned without any pause toward the next target, Kufra, and the oil resources in the south.

Now the UMH is the pursuer and Haftar the fugitive, and he has taken refuge not even in Benghazi or Tobruk, from which he draws some of his power inside Libya, but in Cairo, under the control of Sisi, one of the coup-making patrons he actually represents.

Haftar, who until two months ago was spoiled by having come within a whisker of the success of the coup and occupation attempt, and who with the back of his hand pushed away the offer of peace and reconciliation made to him, which even then he did not deserve, had shut himself in his hotel room in Berlin at the end of January so as not to sign the ceasefire agreement and did not even attend the meetings. Later, as a result of intense diplomatic contacts between Turkey and Russia, he was persuaded to accept the ceasefire, but he did not abide by it at all. Even on the day he announced that he had accepted the ceasefire, he did not shrink from striking civilian targets and hospitals in Tripoli, which he held under siege.

Now, when this Haftar realized that he could not withstand the overwhelming superiority of the UMH units, he took refuge with Sisi, who has been inciting him since 2014 to carry out a coup against the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people, and from there began to call on all parties for a ceasefire and to announce that there is no solution in Libya other than a political one.

Sisi, who for 6 years has been passing his experience of the coup in Egypt on to him and trying to impose the coup regime on Libya, with Haftar on one side and the Speaker of the Tobruk Parliament, Aguila Saleh, on the other, issued a Cairo Initiative declaration that, as if mocking the intelligence of the whole world, only made himself look ridiculous. Many of the things said in this declaration were in fact what Turkey had been saying for years. A political representation structure formed through the dialogue of all parties, excluding no segment of the people in Libya. The complete removal of foreign legionnaires from the country and the encouragement of a political solution.

So what? While Haftar was attempting a coup in Libya with your encouragement, provocation and support, a political solution process was already under way. At the end of this solution process, all the fundamentals and the draft constitution of a civil, democratic and national state structure, to be realized with the participation of all the Libyan people, were already ready. Had this initiative not been blocked by Haftar's coup attempt, that process would today already be continuing to give Libya the independence it deserves, and to let its own children live the life they deserve with the resources it already has.

Haftar and the forces behind him tried to pounce on a country they found defenseless, plunder its resources, and oppress its owners and deprive them of their rights. During this they answered no call for fairness, conscience, right, law or justice. And now they remember all these concepts. Why? Because they failed.

A Libyan jurist says: From this hour on, the only thing these people deserve is to be tried. For them to have a say in determining Libya's future is contrary to the law, to the logic of political history, and to conscience.

The same jurist says: In fact, when we saw Sisi and Aguila Saleh on either side of Sisi, who had incited them against the Libyan people from the start, there was only one thing we expected, though it was not to be: an apology for the wrongs they have committed against the Libyan people by shedding the Libyan people's blood unjustly for years. Instead of hearing this apology, they speak, as if they had emerged victorious from the war now under way, in the language of both victors and gracious victors, of a new initiative that will determine Libya's future. Who are you? Who in Libya will take you seriously? The greatest anger of the Libyan people right now is already directed at you. Today the Libyan people see Sisi as the cause of all the instability, suffering, oppression and deaths they have been living through for 6 years, and give him not a shred of credit. With the picture they gave beside him, which segment of the Libyan people do they think they will win the consent or sympathy of?

Indeed, even in Tobruk and Benghazi, which are currently under the control of Aguila Saleh and Haftar, what this picture expresses to the people is nothing other than the cadre of the betrayal of the Libyan people in recent years. The picture these names give together recalls nothing but all the evils that have been experienced in Libya in the last 6 years. Now these names, in the place to which they fled for refuge, call for a ceasefire and a political solution. Moreover, while doing so, they shamelessly say who should withdraw from Libya. It is quite clear that what they want is not peace. They just want to catch their breath and regroup for new attacks, coups and occupation attempts.

Yet the last word has now been said.

Those who must withdraw from Libya are clear, those who must be tried are clear, and to whom Libya belongs is plain.

Libya, with all its lands, its resources, its decision, belongs to the Libyan people.

And Turkey is there at the call of its brothers to ensure this.