Tunisia goes into 'diplomatic coma'
Following the Turkish intervention in Libya and the Tunisian diplomatic silence in the face of the Libyan developments, Tunisians have launched a campaign calling on officials to break their silence and play an effective role in any mediation process aimed at putting an end to the Libyan conflict.
The Tunisian Free Destourian Party parliamentary bloc criticized in a statement issued Jan. 6 the nebulosity of the Tunisian stance and the presidential silence in the face of the Libyan developments.
This comes after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced at a conference Dec. 26 that he agreed with Tunisian President Kais Saied on supporting the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya, and that Turkey was to send military troops to Libya once it gets the Turkish parliament’s approval.
The bloc also denounced Erdogan’s unannounced Dec. 25 visit to Tunisia and said it submitted a request in which it called on parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi to hold an extraordinary plenary session. It also called on Ghannouchi to summon the minister of foreign affairs and the minister of national defense to know what is really going on and have them inform the Tunisian people of the official Tunisian position and the measures taken to protect the homeland.
The statement said that the Turkish intervention in Libya can harm Tunisian national security.
