(Tripoli) So after the Turks sent thousands of Syrians rebels to fight the good fight
and straight away they got stuck in:#BREAKING: Al-Shahed Newspaper released one of the images leaked today showing #Turkey backed Jihadists of #Syrian National Army in #Gaziantep airport just before boarding one of two #Turkish Air Force's A400Ms & fly to #Istanbul last night. From #Istanbul they flew to #Libya. https://t.co/4rI6jwYJwd pic.twitter.com/7tGlRUPs5E— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) December 30, 2019
However the LNA have helicopter gunships such as the Mil 24 and Mil 35, which in a nutshell are flying tanks:#BREAKING: With help of #Syrian mercenaries & three suicide bombers, #Turkey backed militias of #GNA forced #Libya National Army to retreat from the strategic airport road in #Tripoli.#LNA's reinforcement from #Benghazi will arrive #Tripoli to help recapture of this road tomorrow pic.twitter.com/NQQsIniIvC— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) December 30, 2019
Knowing that time is of the essence Turkey voted to send a load of its own troops last week, and tried to set up a deal with Tunisia , where they offered to build a children's hospital, in exchange for a spot at one of their military airfields for Turkish F16s, unfortunately for the Turks the Tunisians said no.You can see the #LNAF Mi-35 providing close air support for #Libya National Army via attacking positions of #Turkey backed militias of #GNA in outskirts of #Tripoli. #Libya National Air Force has a Mi-24P and a Mi-35 heavy attack helicopter on deployment in Al-Watiya Air Base. pic.twitter.com/5jJGMt8mDp— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 2, 2020
Denied that crucial air support which could turn the tide in the GMAs favour, the Turks looked set to send a fleet off the shore of Libya. But that was too was stymied when Egypt and Greece taking a page out of Ankara book of declaring an area off-limits by hosting a military exercise between the two nations effectively blocking any Turkish reinforcements from reaching Libya by seaThe Limit on Turkey's 'Big Stick'' in Libya: Turkey does not currently possess the capability to conduct Close Air Support and Combat Air Patrol ops in far away Libya | Tunisia refusing access to Turkey sealed this | Turkey will not have this capability until late 2020/early 2021 pic.twitter.com/sz0Dtj1Ecw— Michael Tanchum (@michaeltanchum) January 2, 2020
#BREAKING: Naval Forces of #Egypt & #Greece will hold joint military exercise close to the #Libya's territorial waters. As its result airspace and international waters which are useful for #Turkey to send troops to #Libya will be blocked on #Turkish Navy & Air Force! pic.twitter.com/bbGGDZhJz6— ISCResearch (@ISCResearch) January 2, 2020