Turkey rejects 'preposterous' claims that two of its citizens, detained in Libya by pro-Haftar forces, were on espionage mission
Mehmet Demir and Volkan Altinok worked in a restaurant in Kasr Bin Gashir town, south of capital Tripoli, Turkish sources say. Turkey says the"espionage" claim is preposterous.Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces have detained two Turkish citizens on charges of spying, a claim Turkey strongly rejected, sources said on Wednesday.
Pro-Haftar media labelled the duo, who remained missing for nearly two weeks, potential spies. Turkey strongly rejected the espionage claims and called it social media trolling. Born in 1943, in the eastern town of Ajdabiya, Haftar was one of the officers led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the 1969 coup, which deposed King Idris from his throne.
The Chadian conflict marked a schism between both men as Gaddafi disowned Haftar after the latter was defeated and captured by French-backed Chadian forces in 1987.
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