Gaddafi received ‘guarantee’ from Turkey to leave Libya

Prime Minister Erdogan says they received no reply to offer to aid Libyan leader in leaving country

* guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 June 2011 23.03 BST

Erdogan offers to help Gaddafi leave Libya

The Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan believes that Muammar Gaddafi has no option but to leave Libya. Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday his country had offered a “guarantee” to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi if he left Libya, but said Ankara had received no answer.

“Gaddafi has no way out but to leave Libya, through the guarantees given to him, it seems,” Erdogan told NTV broadcaster in an interview.

“We ourselves have offered him this guarantee, via the representatives we’ve sent. We told him we would help him to be sent wherever he wanted to be sent. We would discuss the issue with our allies, according to the response we receive. Unfortunately we still haven’t got a response from Gaddafi.”

Erdogan, whose country is a member of Nato, did not specify what kind of guarantee his country had offered to Gaddafi.

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