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Erdogan, Putin Hold More Discussions on Libya

Dorian Jones

   ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke Tuesday with
   Russian President Vladimir Putin about Libya as Ankara prepares for the
   possible deployment of soldiers to the war-torn country.
   Moscow sought to put a positive spin on Tuesday's telephone call, the
   second on Libya in a week. "Russia supports all efforts by individual
   countries in terms of finding a solution to the [Libyan] crisis," said
   Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.

   Ankara appears to have taken Moscow by surprise when Erdogan last month
   signed a security agreement with Libya's head of the Presidential
   Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, in
   Istanbul.

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