The President Recep Tayyip Erdogan he said he could intervene in support of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's Libyan government of national unity. The basis of the possible Turkish intervention, writes Il Giornale, is the Tripoli-Ankara agreement signed on November 27, a memorandum of understanding that ranges from military collaboration to gas drilling in the Mediterranean. The Turkish parliament ratified it in record time on 5 December. Erdogan in his statements is directed and accuses Russia of supporting the militias of General Kalifa Haftar, through the group of contractors Wagner.

In confirmation of what was written by the New York Times that at the beginning of November it had counted about 200 Russian contractors or mercenaries in the pay of the pact between Moscow and Haftar. "There is a risk that Libya will turn into another Syria if Russia - still warns the Turkish leader - continues to support Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army". Therefore Putin should reconsider his position. As the UN envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salamé, explained in recent days, Libya is no longer a battleground between countries like Italy and France, but other international actors have taken the field and the crisis is global : Russia, Turkey, the Gulf countries on positions that are also diversified.

The Turks, for example, can count on an important military base in Qatar, which is on opposite positions with respect to the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, alongside al-Sarraj, the only premier so far officially recognized by the European Union and the UN. And yet it is weak, so much so that it needs, like the air, the support of countries like Turkey in order not to collapse. Both Erdogan and President Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peshkov, confirm that in the coming days the two leaders will meet on the phone to discuss the situation and outline a way out. Meanwhile, Peshkov reiterates the official line of the Kremlin: "Maintain relations with all the actors of the internal political and military theater in Libya, hoping that the warring parties show their willingness to compromise." Against the backdrop of military movements, also the new alignments on the economic and energy front. In fact, the agreement at the end of November envisages a new delimitation of the so-called Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) between al-Sarraj's Libya and Turkey, with the consequent creation of a Turkish-Libyan corridor capable of ousting Greece, on the one hand, historic opponent of the Turks, on the other Cyprus, Egypt and Israel. Erdogan is well aware that the al-Sarraj government and the shield of the Misrata tribes are hanging by a thread, so he has pre-established the legal basis for claiming their rights in the eastern Mediterranean in any case.

Hence, too, the announcement of "joint explorations with Libya in search of offshore hydrocarbons in the areas defined by the memorandum of understanding". And the embarrassment of the EU, which through the mouth of the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, defines "Turkey's action in the Aegean as" unacceptable "and to protect Greece, an EU member, explains that it will send" a clear message ".