Statement by Egypt's Foreign Ministry spox about Turkish remarks on legitimacy of Libyan requests for Egyptian intervention

CAIRO - 18 July 2020: The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry has expressed his surprise at the statements of some Turkish officials casting doubt on the legitimacy of elected Libyan bodies and communal entities’ requests of Egyptian intervention. 

In a July 18 statement, spokesperson Ahmed Hafez said such intervention is requested in the face of terrorism and extremism being brought over from Syria after spreading them in the latter through the Turkish-Syrian borders, as well as spreading them in other Arab areas. 

Hafez also expressed surprised at the Turkish Administration’s gambling the Turkish people’s capabilities on interfering and getting involved in Arab countries’ crises only to deepen and complicate them.  

The Turkish interference aims to ensure dominance for certain factions, not for their popularity but rather for their ideology, one that it seeks to promote in a way that squandered the resources of the Turkish people. 

Egypt rejects the political and military interferences of Turkey in Arab affairs, as they lack the slightest legal basis and even violate the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, whether in Iraq, Syria, or Libya, Hafez said. 

He added that the Arab people refuse all the endeavors and ambitions of those who want to run their affairs to the end of achieving interests and goals with which Arabs have nothing to do.