New Turkish ambassador to Libya named as Guven Begec - to start ‘‘soon’’
May 27 Sami Zaptia

New Turkish ambassador to Libya named as Guven Begec - to start ‘‘soon’’

A Turkish source confirmed to Libya Herald today that a new ambassador to Libya will be taking over from Kenan Yilmaz at Tripoli ‘‘soon’’.The new amba...

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Eastern Libyan government tours Derna’s Storm Daniel destroyed areas with Turkish construction companies
Oct 4 Sami Zaptia

Eastern Libyan government tours Derna’s Storm Daniel destroyed areas with Turkish construction companies

The Prime Minister of the internationally unrecognised eastern-based Libyan government, Osama Hamad, conducted a tour of the Storm Daniel destroyed ar...

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Big Chefs Turkish restaurant chain opens its first branch in Tripoli – the first in Libya and Africa
Mar 25 Sami Zaptia

Big Chefs Turkish restaurant chain opens its first branch in Tripoli – the first in Libya and Africa

The Alrafahiya International Services company, part of the Akida Holding Group, opened its first restaurant of the well-known Turkish Big Chefs restau...

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Leading Turkish businessman urges Turkish counterparts to invest in Libya
Oct 15 Sami Zaptia

Leading Turkish businessman urges Turkish counterparts to invest in Libya

Murtaza Karanfil, chairperson of the Foreign Economic Relations Board’s (DEIK) Turkey-Libya Business Council, president of the Istanbul-based Independ...

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Turkish Albayrak visits Misrata Free Zone to consider establishing a logistics centre
Jul 5 Sami Zaptia

Turkish Albayrak visits Misrata Free Zone to consider establishing a logistics centre

By Sami Zaptia.London, 5 July 2021:A delegation from Albayrak Holding Company, a huge multi-sector Turkish conglomerate, headed by its owner, chairman...

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May 18 Nigel Ash

Turkey protests "barbaric" freighter attack

May 18 2015The Turkish freighter Tuna-1 (Photo: social media) By Libya Herald staffTurkey has called the bombing of a freighter off the Libyan coast l...

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Nov 15 Callum Paton

Nine Turkish workers held by the army to return home

By Maha Suliman. Benghazi, 15 November 2014: Nine Turkish restaurant workers held by the Libyan National Army (LNA) in Benghazi have been released t...

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