Russia's “Wait and See” Policies and the Libyan Settlement

..., more serious reasons to worry - as noted earlier, the discord and lack of unity among NATO member states regarding disputes in the eastern Mediterranean. In December 2019, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan received in Istanbul the head of Libya’s GNA, Fayez al-Sarraj, and with him signed a Turkish-Libyan agreement on military cooperation and a memorandum of understanding on the demarcation of maritime zones between the two countries. These agreements provoked harsh reactions from Athens and Cairo....