How Turkey is angering its Mediterranean neighbours with gas drilling ambitions
(WorldNews Turkey)

Ankara: After Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, it found itself short of military hardware. In stepped Muammar Qaddafi, and four Turkish DC-9 commercial aircraft with the seats stripped out were loaded with rockets from Libyan stockpiles of U.S.-made weaponry. He refused all payment. `I can never forget the friendship shown by Qaddafi at a very difficult time,` retired Turkish diplomat Taner Baytok recalled in an interview with Hurriyet newspaper. `I describe it as a debt of gratitude.` Baytok was reminiscing in 2011, the year the Libyan leader was overthrown and the country entered a new era of chaos. Now Turkey is in the ascendancy and Libya a divided, war-ravaged shell. Yet those ties are...