Growing tensions between France and Turkey

Over the course of the past weeks, international media outlets have been reporting growing tensions between the international actors involved in the Libyan crisis, and most particularly between France and Turkey. The tensions transpired through a declaration by French President Macron against the deployment of Turkish forces in Libya. In an article published on 6 February for Al-Monitor, Fehim Tastekin analyses that Turkey’s growing influence in Africa, in the economic, diplomatic and military sectors is threatening France’s influence in the continent.Click here to read the article.