Dear World,
On Monday, September 11, 2023, two dams collapsed in the eastern city of Derna, turning the floods caused by Storm Daniel into a tsunami of death for the city’s residents and grief for all of Libya.
My cherished friend and colleague Angela-Moira Mandalios had just
Also note that unlike Ukraine, Greece is both a long time member of the EU and NATO. And yet the reactions (or lack thereof) is staggering. While Cyprus, also a EU member state, still remains under illegal occupation by
#Turkey
which invaded the country in 1974.
Wonder if NATO considers Greece's borders as sacrosanct and their defense as urgent as it does those of Ukraine. Especially when the repeated threats against Greece come from a current NATO member.
If Dendias wished to discuss matters with Turkey, he would simply have arranged a meeting with Çavuşoğlu or Erdogan -certainly not with Turkey's shameless errand girl in
#Libya
. Perhaps Mangoush could learn a few overdue lessons on loyalty to one's own country and the rule of law
#Greek
FM
@NikosDendias
refused to meet
#Libyan
president Menfi, because the Libyan foreign ministry went back on a deal that he wouldn't meet with FM Leila al
#Mangoush
. GR is unhappy w/Mangoush for signing a gas exploration deal w/
#Turkey
which GR considers illegal.
🚨Turkey just lost a dozen of their guys fighting the PKK. The second largest NATO army has failed to defeat a Kurdish armed group for 40 years now. Second largest doesn’t mean second strongest.
This is a never ending conflict. Time for Turkey to admit that PKK isn’t going
✅"New power in town"= illegal occupying force and state sponsor of terror
✅"UN-backed'= False. UN brokered. GNA expired, unratified, not
#Libya
backed
✅"Renegade general"= Head of army as appointed by democratically elected parliament
✅"Take Tripoli"=Remove militia cartel
On the ground in
#Libya
with Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar. Turkey is the new power in town here. It's support for the UN backed government (
#GNA
) was crucial. Turned the tide against renegade General Khalifa Haftar who was trying to take
#Tripoli
.
Dear All,
Any professionals in emergency rescue and willing to travel to East
#Libya
within the next coming days please DM me
Likewise any volunteers who can speak Italian-Arabic, French-Arabic, Spanish Arabic to be teamed with the Red Cross in Libya and other missions.
هؤلاء من حاربهم الجيش الليبي في بنغازي.
هؤلاء من تلقوا الدعم من المؤتمر الوطني وحكومة الإنقاذ ومصرف ليبيا المركزي في طرابلس.
بقايا هؤلاء يدعمون حكومة الوفاق اليوم.
Cyprus is in the middle of the conflict. Ankara wants to protect the Turkish-speaking northern part of Cyprus, but the international community only views the Greek Cypriot side as the legitimate authority for the whole of the island
Turkey bombs civilians, assaults Americans on 🇺🇸 soil, threatens U.S. allies with war and refuses to sanction Russia while giving safe haven to its oligarchs. Now they want Americans to sell them weapons as a reward.
Retweet if you agree there must be
#NoJetsForTurkey
"
#Qatar
’s new acquisition at Trump World Tower...coincided with an intense lobbying campaign in Washington by the Qatari government amid a regional crisis that has pitted the Gulf monarchy against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates."
#Libya
Thread. Decades of non-Muslims carrying the water for Islamist extremists whose primary victims are Muslims.
More insidiously, such obscurantists conflate Islamism with Islam -directly tarnishing the faith and stoking Islamophobia- while camoflaging Islamists in the West.
Watch last night's debate on
@skynewsarabia
where I address
#Turkey
's latest disinformation campaign against
#Greece
ref the use of S300s. Spoiler Alert: It never happened. Because it's in Arabic, I'll summarize some of my points in a thread below. Link:
As promised, my speech on the role of Greeks in
#Libya
|n history at the Foreign Affairs Institute's 2nd International Conference on "Hellenism and Islamic Culture: Positive Sources and Prospecys for Interaction" now has Greek subtitles ⬇️⚡️
Link:
Dear
@MevlutCavusoglu
,
First of all, you talk too much.
Second, Libyans won't demand you leave: they will make you.
Third, how you leave is up to you.
P.S. Sorry about the sanctions on your broke country.
#Turkistan
#Libya
#Turkey
's Foreign Minister Mevlüt #Çavuşoğlu, in response to a question on request for Turkish forces to leave
#Libya
: “Nobody has the right to demand Turkey to leave Libya—even if the legitimate government changes, we will not abandon our interests there in favour of
#Haftar
.”
The tragic subtext is that children in Syria, and so many others around the world, live in a world so devoid of compassion and so full of deprivation, that when they are faced with the prospect of help and basic human decency, they assume they have to barter for it.
Last night's attack on the Corinthian hotel by
#Turkey
's local proxies which followed Istanbul-based radical cleric Ghariani's incitement against
#Libya
's FM, a reminder of the ongoing and terrorizing legacy of their antidemocracy, Ankara/Doha backed coup
Today, Foreign Minister
@NikosDendias
visited the Greek Community Benghazi European School,
@CodeontheRoad1
's valued partner in
#Libya
.
The Benghazi European School has been providing both Greeks and Libyans in Benghazi with internationally competitive education for over 20 yrs
The people of
#Tripoli
protest against the raising of the Turkish flag by the Dbeiba regime, Turkey's Vichy government in
#Libya
. Of course, it's not only
#Turkey
that's backing this dictatorship, the local conduit to the plundering of Libyan public funds and assets.
شاهد | لقطات تم منع عرضها أثناء البث المباشر في حفل 17 فبراير بطرابلس ، اثناء رفع حكومة الدبيبة للعلم التركي و رفض شباب طرابلس لرفع العلم مناديين بشعار " لا لـ #تركيا فقط #ليبيا ، ليبيا ". #العنوان
November 2019: Erdogan: “You may take this lightly, but these doors [to Europe] will open and these [ISIS] members will be sent to you. Do not try to threaten
#Turkey
over developments in
#Cyprus
"
The story of Kobani's against-all-odds victory against ISIS is one of the most thrilling and inspirational stories of triumph against global Islamist terrorism and its state sponsors.
Read more about it here: "The Siege of Kobani"
.
Can’t let the day go by before acknowledging what today is.
🚨November 1st is World Kobani Day.
Kobani is a small Kurdish town in Rojava (northeast Syria) just across the Turkish border. In 2014 it was locked in by ISIS terrorists on the Syrian side and the Turkish military on
March 2017: "President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude toward
#Turkey
"
Are the Turks planning to attack Libyans with U.S. and UK approval? Why are they so tolerant of Turkish invasions and escalations in
#Greece
and
#Libya
?
NEWS | Five military cargo planes in a day: A
#US
military C17 cargo plane landed at the
#Misrata
airbase, the second in 24 hours, preceded by a
#UK
one of the same model, while two military cargo planes belonging to
#Turkey
landed at Al-Watiya, both C130 and A400.
#Libya
As a
#Libya
|n citizen, I reject any goverment -interim or otherwise- that is foreign imposed and led by unelected criminals, warlords, gangsters, violent extremists, money-launderers, thieves and thugs of record.
Stephanie can take her sleazeshow elsewhere.
#NotMyGovernment
The popular boycott did not stop at products by Turkish companies "but expanded to include imports of products of int'l brands manufactured in
#Turkey
, which means that the boycott will have an effect on the business of these international companies."
THREAD. This week I'll be revisiting gov leaks on the investigation into the person of “Atif Bakra” and his testimony on grand scale racketeering, financial
#corruption
+arms trafficking in
#Libya
covering the period 2012-2019. The explosive 9 page document is authentic
#LibyaGate
#Libya
Every Farce Has an End:
GNA is not only expired, but it was never ratified to begin with. It is unelected, foreign appointed and with zero legitimacy.
Pro-Islamist bloc very careful to omit this fact to proliferate false narratives.
English
A flawed democracy could tip into full-blown autocracy. Turkey is on the brink of disaster under its increasingly erratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Thread on the curious manner by which
@Reuters
chose to cover the decision issued by the Tripoli Appeals Court which explicitly prohibits the interim GNU from entering any agreements pertaining to
#Libya
's sovereignty and strategic assets.
As
#Thini
&
#Sarraj
resign, this time, the UN must respect the still valid Parliamentary Decree voted in quorum in 2015 selecting 14 names for the post of PM of
#Libya
. Geneva process is bound by Libyan law to select from 14 names. Sarraj was NOT on the list, hence 5 yrs conflict
#Turkey
's radical authoritarianism, occupations, invasions, sponsorship of transnational terrorist groups, gross abuse of human rights both domestically and abroad somehow evades sanctions and meaningful condemnation at the EU and UN level.
What has happened to "NATO values"?
Meantime in the occupied capital of
#Libya
, this travesty captures Turkey+Qatar's successful project of removing one tyrant in order to install their own tyrants: their aim for the *revolution. Needless to say, this kind of colonial disgrace wouldn't fly for a second in Benghazi.
“No! No! No!”
“Remove that flag!”
Video shows chants heard at the moment the Turkish Flag was shown during the 17th of February Revolution 12th anniversary celebrations in Libyan capital Tripoli.
#Libya
#LibyaReview
A Comical Display⬇️
The "GNA" is to
#Libya
what the Vichy government was to France.
A motley crew of thugs and Islamists, the GNA has the social capital of a leper colony.
Millions of Libyans trapped in their territory and they can't find enough willing to serve their junta.
After arriving in Libya, Syrian mercenaries are now being trained to become part of the GNA’s Ministry of Interior security forces.
Date: 13 July 2020.
#Libya
#LibyaReview
1) More kvetching about the inability to influence the Taliban. LOL "The group's record to date suggests that Western officials misjudged the influence of Taliban moderates who for years had promised foreign interlocutors ..." the Taliban would moderate.
#ISIS
joins the GNA: “
#Turkey
continues to send mercenaries into Libya, not only those loyal to Turkey...but also ISIS fighters who are being sent through the
#Syria
|n desert, as well as fighters from Deir Ez-Zor."
#Libya
Following news that
#Turkey
is funneling 2,000 militant jihadists from northern
#Syria
to
#Libya
, I daresay LNA Spox is pointing out the obvious here. It goes without saying that a rogue regime that sponsors terrorism is no partner for peace, but a candidate for further sanctions
LNA spox: "[Erdogan] supported ISIS and other terror orgs in their efforts to kill the Kurds, destroy their cities, cripple their economy...[Turkey] was a base of operations for all members of ISIS and AQ. And so there can never be a pathway to peace in Libya through Turkey.”
#Turkey
invaded
#Cyprus
in 1974 and has occupied it since.
In 2019 alone, Turkey violated
#Greece
's airspace over 4,600 times.
But yes, it all boils down to "macho politics," not sovereignty, human rights, and the rule of law.
Very profound.
@NathalieTocci
1/3) A foreigner from
#Germany
demands
#Libya
|ns to be "Good Arabs" and show respect to
#Turkey
's treasonous, corrupt, un-elected puppet who ushered in the invasion and occupation of our land.
A. Like hell we are.
B. Respect is earned.
C. Oliver would do well to earn it too.
President Sarraj’s decision deserves respect! As transition of power is a challenge to any country, we call on all stakeholders to ensure this to be legitimate and peaceful. The proposals of the 🇺🇳-led, 🇱🇾-owned Montreux talks within the Berlin framework offer an inclusive way.
Thread. Last night I joined
@business
's
@AsharqNews
's program to discuss
#Turkey
's FM visit to
#Greece
and whether diplomatic overtures can be taken seriously without concrete actions to back it up. Segment begins 51 min on. In Arabic, so key points below
Also the GNA,
#Libya
's unelected militia junta: "
#Turkey
is ruled by an Islamist strongman who controls..the military, the intelligence services, the police, the judiciary, the banks, the media, the election boards, the mosques, and the educational system"
Meet the first helicopter pilots of
#Taliban
terrorist organization! They can not read or write! They even don't have shoes but they are trainedd to fly with MD530F light helicopters previously operated by the
#Afghanistan
Air Force.
From Sabratha to Surman to Tarhouna, it is hardly a surprise the Free Syria Army and local militias loyal to
#Turkey
's "GNA" burn and loot wherever the national military is absent.
After all, at a macro level, isn't looting what the GNA has been doing at
#Libya
's Central Bank?
1/-) "This latest illegal agreement is yet another symptom of a more fundamental malaise associated with the usurpation of
#Libya
's sovereignty and right to self determination: the continuing imposition of unelected yet internationally recognized..
In other words, EU's borders has already been violated and is occupied as we speak. Let alone a foreign country outside the EU. And it seems that the EU is more than fine living with it. We know this because it's been ongoing for decades.
Missed the conference? Fret not fans, friends, foes and nerds. My presentations will be elaborated on in a volume by the University of Athens coming out early next year.
Seeing the support
#Turkey
has extended to the Islamic State and other jihadist terrorists in Syria and Libya, perhaps this is precisely the reason why the SDF is being attacked.
My
@CFR_org
comments on the precarious situation in Syria in
@Newsweek
: "…the people who stopped ISIS in Kobani in 2015 were the Syrian Democratic Forces. These are the same forces who were the champions against ISIS, and who our
#NATO
ally is ready to attack."
@ShaolinTom
Old alliances die hard.
#Germany
's Owcza was silent when
#Turkey
built airstrip in the Banana Project residential zone+when they turned Mitiga into a military+mercenary base. Seems his actual concern is for the ability of genocidal militias+mercenaries to keep killing
#Libya
|ns
We share the concern and anger and join
@UNSMIL
in condemning these attacks, reportedly committed by LNA affiliated forces. Who willingly endangers civilian lives violates humanitarian law and acts against the unity of Libyan people.
🔐Questions for journalists to address:
1. How was the "GNA" created?
2. Who is the GNA?
3. What was the process of their selection?
4. Were they ratified by the elected parliament?
5. When did they expire?
6. As a foreign-appointed entity, who is GNA's constituents?
#Libya
Vile and gross as usual.
#France
, like
#Greece
, remains a staunch obstacle to Islamist
#Turkey
's leviathan ambitions in the EU and MENA and that's driving Tocci into deeper stages of delusion and desperation.
Have some self-respect
@NathalieTocci
, you're embarrassing.
#EU
@ExtSpoxEU
Not only is it against the Law of the Seas, this unelected interim government has no legal right within Libya to enter such agreements in the first place.
1- First and foremost, Greece did not lock its S300s (based in Crete) on Turkish fighter jets. It is not possible to comment on "developments" that take place in President Erdogan's imagination.
#ليبيا لكل مهزلة نهاية:
لم تنتهِ صلاحية حكومة الوفاق فحسب، بل لم تحظ بالتصديق منذ البداية فهي غير منتخبة ومعينة من الخارج وتفتقر لأي شرعية.
تحرص الكتلة المؤيدة للإسلاميين على ��خفاء هذه الحقيقة بهدف نشر الأكاذيب.
بالعربية:
1. Between 2009 and 2019, Turkey carried out 450 overhead flights over Greek territory. In 2020 alone, that number was over 400, showing a drastic escalation of provocations.
⚡️What Do Libyan Women Want? [..from Presidential Elections]
Alongside 4 amazing women from different parts of
#Libya
, I talk about what I hope for and a little about my hometown
#Benghazi
in this beautiful production by
@BBCWorld
and
@SunitiNiti
⬇️
We can also be thankful for thorough work by
@amnesty
, which bases its analysis of war crime videos of the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict on some two dozen videos out of hundreds. Certainly, this not rigging a conclusion at all.
This report is truly insidious, because the Woke general public who proudly carry their Amnesty tote bags, and who don't subscribe to 500 war video telegram channels and see the reality for themselves, will wholly believe this.
GNA is an unelected, unratified, expired gang clinging to power at the expense of
#Libya
: A motley crew of characters with irrelevant CVs appointed by foreigners in a zero-transparency process and happy to co-opt the criminals they were supposed to disarm
Last Friday I was back on
@AsharqNews
to discuss
#Erdogan
’s latest provocations in
#Cyprus
. Takeaway:
While international condemnation at the UNSC is welcome, facts on the ground and precedents indicate that there is little will to halt
#Turkey
’s expansionism and rogue behavior.
Traditional Arab dress is gorgeous, intricate, feminine and stunning and not to be conflated with Islamist dress which usurped our heritage. I invite everyone to look throuh the archives of the Zay Initiative which documents historical Arab attire:
I remember a time when diplomats behaved like serious statesmen and not thirsty social media influencers on vacation. Reflective of their work ethic, maturity and quality. Also reflective of our era's values and relentless war on standards.
#Libya
Dear Friends, I am overjoyed to announce that last night, I was notified by the
#Harvard
Arab Alumni Association that we won. On behalf of my team
@CodeontheRoad1
and partners, I wanted to express my profound thanks to everyone in
#Libya
and abroad who voted and rallied for us.
I cancelled my subscription to the
@TheEconomist
years ago upon realizing its trashy and transparent attempts at "subtle" propaganda had become a policy and not a fluke.
An attack on Arab visual identity.
What an abhorrently disgusting and racist cover from
@TheEconomist
. It’s disturbing to think that there are people that have agreed on putting this on the cover.
Shame on every single one of you.
Of all those opining on the tragic turn of events in MENA, the award for biggest nerve definitely goes to
#Turkey
. I'd like to add occupying West
#Libya
to Ankara's list of crimes🔽
The question is: how has Turkey been allowed to get away with an ever-increasing agenda of
The latest in
#DoubleStandards
from Hamas-loving Hakan Fidan:
"You occupy someone's land. You seize their house, you throw them out, you bring someone and put them there, you call them 'settler'. This is called theft."
This from the FM of the same rogue state which:
✅
Definitely looking forward to my next 16 years on Planet Earth with such wonderful friends and family ❤🎉🎊 🌍 Thank you everyone for your warm wishes, humor and energy into making my day super special ⭐❤ 🤗🎂
The biggest victims of Islamist terrorism are Muslims themseves. Often, wars that take place in our region are rarely told through our own eyes. Worse, our voices are often hijacked by an Isamist minority. With movies like "Mosul," that is changing
Looking forward to
#AlKameen
⚡️
EXCLUSIVE trailer : AlKameen - the UAE’s biggest & most anticipated film of the year in cinemas 25th November
.
This tells the story of a UAE 🇦🇪 army vehicle ambushed by enemy combatants & how their courageous unit commander attempts a daring rescue mission.
The Axis of Corruption:
#GNA
-
#Malta
-
#Turkey
A portrait of how alliances are subverted from within and endanger both intl and EU foreign+security policy.
Malta is a key node of money-laundering.
#Turkey
and its
#Syria
National Army in turn, acts as the military arm of
#Qatar
After withdrawing from EU Operation Irini, then threatening to veto the appointment of the operation's new force commander, Malta yesterday issued a joint statement w/ Turkey and Libya's GNA openly attacking it.
Malta breaking EU ranks to support Turkey.
Attention please, PSA, PSA📢
Thrilled to join this important initiative by
@NobelWomen
and I invite everyone to look through the entire platform for other amazing and articulate women who are making a difference in MENA and beyond⚡️
New 📣Aya
@Burweila
is an expert on security with a special focus on
#Libya
. She founded NGO
@CodeontheRoad1
. Profile and contact link on
@Interview_Her
platform of women experts for media on conflict, peace and security.
⬇️Thread. Ref
@ClaudiaGazzini
quote. In reality, HOR/LNA has no issue with revenue sharing but w/ plundering of CBL by
#Turkey
-backed militias. LNA twice freed the oil crescent from militias and handed its control to
#Libya
's NOC
@mck_beth
@patrickwintour
Yesterday,
#Qatar
and
#Turkey
's proxy in
#Libya
, the unelected, unratified, expired "GNA" signed an agreement with
#Pakistan
, making things official with another terror friendly frenemy.
@MakisHellas1
1) Thank you
@MakisHellas1
. I see the visit by Mitsotakis to Libya as hugely important. Greece's relations with the east of Libya and institutions such as the HoR and the LNA are very good and once the Consulate is open in Benghazi I believe these relations shall strengthen more.