{"id":62405,"date":"2019-02-06T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=62405"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:59:44","slug":"libya-presidential-council-decries-military-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/libya-presidential-council-decries-military-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Presidential council decries military escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Libya\u2019s Presidential Council has condemned military escalation in the country\u2019s southern region.<\/h2>\n<p>For the past two weeks, forces of East Libya-based military commander Khalifa Haftar have been attacking what they describe as &#8220;smuggling gangs and Chadian opposition&#8221; in southern Libya.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the council called for \u201cending such acts with a view to maintaining peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These actions will bring us backwards and we are at the gates of resolving the crisis in our country by unifying institutions, and holding elections,&#8221; the council said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The South is very important for Libya&#8217;s stability and should not become a yard to set political scores,\u201d the council said.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been 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<p>Since then, Libya\u2019s stark political divisions have yielded two rival seats of power &#8212; one in Tobruk (to which Haftar is affiliated) and another in Tripoli &#8212; along with a host of armed groups of dubious loyalties.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libya\u2019s Presidential Council has condemned military escalation in the country\u2019s southern region. For the past two weeks, forces of East Libya-based military commander Khalifa Haftar have been attacking what they describe as &#8220;smuggling gangs and Chadian opposition&#8221; in southern Libya. In a statement, the council called for \u201cending such acts with a view to maintaining &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[591],"class_list":["post-62405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405","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=62405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}