In the strict nationalist line of General Mustafa Kemal, the founder of modern Turkey, the current Turkish president succeeds in methodically moving his pawns, to advance his great neo-Ottoman reconquest project. It is always a question of avenging the humiliating treaty of Sèvres (August 1920), which forced the Sublime Porte to definitively renounce its Arab and Maghreb provinces.
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Erdogan is setting foot in Libya where Kemal won his first military success. In December 1911, the future Atatürk pushed the Italians out of Tobrouk and settled in Derna. But this victory was useless because the Turkish expeditionary force had to hastily withdraw from Libya to go to fight in the first Balkan war.
Like all good strategists, Erdogan was able to wait for the right moment to act. On November 28, 2019, it had concluded, in Istanbul, a military and security cooperation agreement with the Libyan government of national unity (GNA) of
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