CAIRO – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has told Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi he should name a president with popular support as a way to end his country’s crisis, an Arab television network reported on Monday. Erdogan told Al Arabiya television in an interview he expected Gaddafi to take “positive steps in this direction”. “We want a halt to the fighting by both of the sides, both in the east and west of Libya,” Erdogan said. Gaddafi has been Libya’s leader for four decades but does not carry the title of president.
“I called Gaddafi three times and I proposed to him that all the while he says that he is not a president, that he nominates someone picked by him who enjoys the support of the Libyan people to be the president for the coming period,” Erdogan said. Speaking about his proposal, Erdogan said: “I requested that from him and I spoke to his son.” His quotes were translated into Arabic by Al Arabiya.
