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Erdogan: Turkey lawmakers to vote on sending troops to Libya

(AP) Turkey’s president says the U.N.-supported government in Libya has asked Ankara to send troops to help authorities in Tripoli defend the city from an offensive by rival forces.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish lawmakers could vote as early as next week on the move, adding that his government will submit a bill to allow for the deployment of Turkish forces to Libya.

He says the Tripoli government “invited” Turkey to send troops under a military cooperation agreement signed recently between the two countries.

Libya is divided between the two administrations, the one in Tripoli and the east-based government, each supported by an array of militias and foreign governments.

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