Turkey cut its diplomatic ties with Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan government and recalled its ambassador, the Turkish Official State Newspaper reported.

The move came after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Sunday and pledged $200 million in aid to the rebel Transitional National Council after talks with Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of the Libyan National Transitional Congress Ali al-Issawi.

Gaddafi :  Time to leave Libya

It is time for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave Libya, Davutoglu said, declaring the rebel National Council “a legitimate representative of the Libyan people.”

 

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