The Nordic Monitor reveals that the Turkish president has asked for authorization to intervene at a time and place to be determined by him.[/B]
Authorization from Turkey's National Assembly has been requested by Recep Tayyip Erdogan for military intervention in any country and at any time he chooses, according to the Nordic Monitor.
According to the report, signed by Levent Kenez, in response to a request for approval to extend the presence of Turkish military forces in Libya for an additional 18 months, the Turkish president is asking to make his own decision on military intervention, vaguely about "countries."
As Nordic Monitor points out, "Using the word 'countries' instead of 'Libya' where troops will be sent allows Erdogan to send troops to any destination he deems necessary, on the grounds of protecting Turkey's interests."
For example, Erdogan, under the new decision of the Turkish National Assembly, can take action against another country by claiming that: "there is a violation in the Eastern Mediterranean regarding the implementation of the Turkey-Libya Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement signed in 2019″. This is a maritime agreement - not recognised by any Mediterranean country - defining a joint Turkish-Libyan continental shelf and EEZ".
According to the same media outlet, there is no obstacle to the approval of the bill, which is expected to enter the parliament's agenda soon, as Erdogan's ruling party and its far-right partner, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have a majority in the legislature.
The Turkish parliament had initially authorised the government to send military forces to Libya on 2 January 2020 and extended the proposal to 2 January 2021.
[BR][BR]Opposition stance
The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) of the official opposition had previously voted against the proposal, arguing that a UN peacekeeping force should be deployed in Libya and that Turkey should join it.
The right-wing opposition İYİ Party also voted against, arguing that participating in an Arab civil war, as in Syria, would not benefit Turkey.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was also against the proposal.
Regarding Greece, Nordic Monitor underlines that: "Erdogan said last week that Greece had militarized certain islands in the Aegean in contravention of international agreements, noting that Turkey could intervene and that he was not joking.
Political observers believe that ahead of next year's presidential election, Erdogan wants to take advantage of a wave of neo-nationalism at home and that a cross-border military operation against the Kurds in Syria was put on the agenda by Erdogan last month also for this purpose."
Source: in.gr
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