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PALERMO: Turkey on Tuesday pulled out of Italian-sponsored Libya crisis talks saying it had been"excluded", dealing a fresh blow to the latest international bid to stabilise the chaos-stricken country.
Turkey walked out after eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar joined a meeting on the conference's sidelines with his UN-backed rival Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and other leaders, but not with Turkish representatives.
"Any meeting which excludes Turkey would prove to be counter-productive for the solution of this problem," Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said in a statement."The informal meeting held this morning with a number of players and having them presented as the prominent protagonists of the Mediterranean is a very misleading and damaging approach which we vehemently oppose," Oktay said. (AFP)
