The Diplomatic Insight April 2020

What actually happened in Libya?
The uprisings, which began in 2011
on the Arab Spring, have led to the
loss of dominance of Muammar
Gaddafi, who has ruled the country
since 1969. Then came NATO
intervention by United Nations
Security Council resolution 1973.
As a result, Gaddafi forces, which
were bombed from the air, were
neutralized and NATO, which
was unable to provide terrestrial
security, could not prevent a civil
war.
While groups in many different
factions are fighting each other,
Gaddafi was defamed in front of
the eyes of the whole world. The
civil war continued until 2013.
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda benefited
from the chaos Magrep al-Qaeda
extending from Libya-based Great
Sahara to Buku Haram in Nigeria,
, and to Al Shabab in Somalia
emerged. In this way, al-Qaeda
has obtained a rich source of
people, money and weapons from
Afghanistan to Cebeli Tarık.
Meanwhile, without providing
terrestrial security, the formation of
the United States and EU countries
began to work under the name of
the Libyan Coordination Group.
In 2013, after an unstable electoral
process in Libya, the National
Transition Council was established.
Fayiz es Serraç was elected as the
Prime Minister. The government
began to rule the country in
Trablus. However, there was also
an opposing faction. Khafter, one
of the generals of Gaddafi’s period,
did not accept this formation and
started a more brutal civil war by
establishing the Libyan National
Army in Tobruk.
But the countries that formed the
Libyan Coordination Group, which
is expected to do much, began an
internal conflict on their interests.
France started to act independently.
Because he didn’t want to lose his
initiative in Central Africa through
his Legionnaires’ troops, which
he had for many years in the
Sahara. Italy had the companies
that extracted from Libyan oil and
benefited it before the civil war
and did not want this procedure
to be broken. Germany pursued
its interests within two states,
and therefore by keeping its vote
as abstain supported in negative
way. The United States has long
been waging a separate plan in
the Mediterranean because it acted
directly in its own interests.
As a result, Libya turned into a
geography that could not survive
because of civil wars such as Syria
and Yemen.
Result
Here is a very important deficiency
in the above mentioned issues.
The main owners of Eurasia are
not included here A cooperation is
needed on the China-Central Asia-
Pakistan-Turkey line. Because the
lack of this kind of cooperation
causes the power union to be
missing.
Since 2011, Turkey is aware of this
situation and has abandoned its
passive stance and started to produce
active policies and put them in the
field of implementation. Military,
political and sociological practices
describe today’s geopolitics. If left
intervened, the vast geographies
from Africa to China, where half
the world’s population lives, will
continue to be negatively affected.
The writers are working in
Onbeş Kasım Kıbrıs University,
Mediterranean Strategic Research
Center, TRNC
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