Libyan official: Turkish troops unwanted, destabilizing

Turkey's willingness to dispatch troops to Libya is "unacceptable" and such a move would constitute unwanted meddling in the affairs of a friendly country, the speaker of the north African country's parliament said Saturday.

According to the state-run Cyprus News Agency, Aguila Saleh said in a joint statement with his Cypriot counterpart that Turkey's actions are ratcheting up tensions and destabilizing the wider region.

Saleh and Cypriot parliamentary speaker Demetris Syllouris also reiterated their condemnation of a maritime border agreement that Turkey signed with Libya's Tripoli-based government - but which hasn't been ratified, as necessary, by the Libyan parliament - as a "flagrant violation of international law that's devoid of any legal basis."

On a surprise visit to Tunisia earlier this week, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated that his...