\u201cI feel sorry that Turkey\u2019s Vice President Fuat Oktay left the conference. I read his remarks and I didn\u2019t see anything negative about Italy. We must admit that there may be special sensitivities in such decisions,\u201d Conte told reporters after the event in a news conference.<\/p>\n
Oktay left the conference half-way saying some parties had a “misleading and detrimental approach” to the issue.<\/p>\n
The Turkish vice president met Conte on Monday and discussed bilateral ties, according to a Turkish presidential source.<\/p>\n
They also spoke about finding a lasting solution in Libya, stressing on its territorial integrity, sovereignty, and political unity.<\/p>\n
They discussed the rapid completion of joint projects and launching of new projects between Ankara and Rome.<\/p>\n
Libya has remained dogged by turmoil since 2011 when a bloody NATO-backed uprising led to the ouster and death of long-serving President Muammar Gaddafi after more than four decades in power.<\/p>\n
Currently, two rival seats of power are vying for supremacy in Libya: an internationally recognized national unity government based in Tripoli, and a government supported by a legislative assembly based in the eastern city of Tobruk.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he regretted Turkey’s withdrawal from the Libya conference on Tuesday. \u201cI feel sorry that Turkey\u2019s Vice President Fuat Oktay left the conference. I read his remarks and I didn\u2019t see anything negative about Italy. We must admit that there may be special sensitivities in such decisions,\u201d Conte told reporters …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1,101,194,188,14],"tags":[78209,78208,1131,591,929],"class_list":["post-61964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-general","category-politics","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-fuat-oktay","tag-giuseppe-conte","tag-libya","tag-nato","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}