Turkey Set for Gas-Exploration Deal After Wooing Ex-Libya Foes
(Bloomberg)-Libya’s Eastern Parliament is preparing to allow Türkiye to explore energy in the waters of the North African nation, according to people who know the issue.
He said that people in Türkiye and Libya are familiar with negotiations and that the House of Representatives in Bingazi is ready to vote that determines the conditions of a discovery agreement in the coming weeks. They said that most of the obstacles of the agreement were abolished and that they refused to be defined because of the sensitivity of the problem.
The OPEC member of the war was divided between the rival administrations in Bingazi and the Western capital Tripoli. Secondly, they have strong relations with Türkiye and already supports the agreement, but the loyal opposition from the east, where the Libyan National Army of the Military Commander Khalifa Haftar, has prevented from entering into force so far.
If approved, the agreement may initiate oil and gas research by Turkish ships in a region between Crete and Türkiye and strengthen Ankara’s claims in the Eastern Mediterranean. This faces the risk of disagreement with Greece and Cyprus, accusing Türkiye of an offer for dominance in controversial waters.
The change of overlapping of East Libya speaks with a new detection between Türkiye and Haftar, which fought on the opposite sides of the war for the Libyan capital in 2019 and 2020.
A United Nations -backed peace driving established a new premiere Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, but could not repair the division. Although the Tripoli -based government and the East have no great struggle between the two sides over the years, it has periodic saliva on the income from Africa’s largest oil reserves and the control of vital state institutions.
Türkiye has been trying to establish relationships with Haftar quietly in recent years. The attempt follows the relationship between Ankara and Egypt, which is about eight years of sprinkle with Türkiye’s attitude towards political Islam. The two countries worked together in Libya last year and solved a power struggle on the Central Bank, which faces the risk of falling into civil war.
In another symptom of improvement of ties, TCG Kinalada is intending to send military trainers and consultants, according to Turkish authorities familiar with Türkiye’s Moves, a Turkish navy. Saddam, the son and heir of Haftar, met with the Turkish Defense Minister and the Chief of Army in Ankara in April.
Although the Discovery of the Mediterranean is an important motivation, Türkiye is trying to save billions of dollars worth of employment contracts worth billions of dollars in limb by the conflict cycle that has captured Libya since the overthrow of the dictator Muammar and Gaddafi in 2011.
Türkiye has recently launched direct flights to Bingazi and has been in projects to rebuild the city of some leading Turkish contractors and to start the production of industrial materials.
According to a Libyan official who is familiar with negotiations between East Libyan officials, there is a consensus that the agreement serves the interests and will bring investment.
In May, the disagreement on the sea zone has intensified in the last months after a statement of reconnaissance for the energy blocks requested by Libya in the south of Greece in the south of Greece.
The European Union said that the controversial Libyan-Tuit agreement violated the sovereign rights of the third states and did not comply with the UN Naval Law.
-Help from Firat Kozok.
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