{"id":416196,"date":"2011-05-03T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/turkish-pm-urges-gaddafi-to-leave-libya\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:59:28","slug":"turkish-pm-urges-gaddafi-to-leave-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/turkish-pm-urges-gaddafi-to-leave-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish PM urges Gaddafi to leave Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the\u00a0Turkish prime minister, has urged Muammar Gaddafi to “immediately” cede power and leave the country, ramping up\u00a0international pressure on the embattled Libyan leader.<\/p>\n

“We wish that the Libyan leader pulls out from Libya and cedes power immeditately – for himself and for the future of his country – without causing more bloodshed, tears and destruction,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Taking this step has become inevitable to prevent further suffering,” he said.<\/p>\n

Erdogan said Gaddafi had ignored calls for change from the Libyan people and instead preferred “blood, tears and pressure” against his own people.<\/p>\n

His comments followed Turkey’s closure of its embassy in Tripoli on Monday in the wake of weekend attacks on Western missions.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators torched British and Italian diplomatic buildings on Sunday after Libya accused NATO of trying to assassinate\u00a0Gaddafi in an attack that killed one of his sons and three young grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Son buried<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday, mourners gathered to bury what was said to be Gaddafi’s youngest son.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gaddafi\u00a0did not attend\u00a0the funeral, but his\u00a0two sons Saif al-Islam and Mohammed were surrounded by a crowd of mourners who carried the coffin said to contain\u00a0Saif al-Arab’s body to a neglected cemetery where weed and thistles grew amid stone slabs marking graves.<\/p>\n

Small graves had been dug for the Gaddafi’s grandchildren who the government said were also killed\u00a0in the bombing on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

More than\u00a0a thousand\u00a0people\u00a0filled the streets of Tripoli\u00a0for the funeral procession.\u00a0“The people want revenge for the martyr!” the crowd\u00a0shouted, amid chants of support for the Libyan leader.<\/p>\n

Khaled Kaim,\u00a0Libya’s\u00a0deputy foreign minister, has said the NATO\u00a0strike\u00a0was the fourth attempt to assassinate Gaddafi, who was in the building that was hit.<\/p>\n

‘Fabricated deaths’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kaim\u00a0denied the presence of command and control facilities\u00a0in the\u00a0Tripoli neighbourhood attacked by\u00a0NATO.<\/p>\n

Kaim also denied allegations that his\u00a0government had fabricated the deaths and said church leaders in Libya had been allowed to see the bodies in the hospital.<\/p>\n

Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, the top Catholic clergyman in Tripoli, said he was shown the bodies in the hospital on Sunday. He said he was told that one was that of Saif al-Arab, but it was so badly disfigured that he could not make a positive identification.<\/p>\n

However, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, who commands NATO’s operation in Libya, has said that the alliance\u00a0does\u00a0“not target individuals”.<\/p>\n

But the announcement of the deaths triggered attacks by angry crowds on Western embassies in Tripoli.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the attacks, Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu,\u00a0announced\u00a0that the country had evacuated its ambassador and all other staff from its embassy in Tripoli to neighbouring Tunisia.<\/p>\n

“Due to the change in the security situation in Libya and the great security risk it poses, our embassy has stopped functioning temporarily and has been evacuated,”\u00a0Davutoglu\u00a0told reporters.<\/p>\n

The NATO-member had kept its embassy open since the uprising against Gaddafi’s rule began in February. But the announcement of its closure came a day after the UN said it had evacuated its international staff from Tripoli\u00a0on account of the unrest.<\/p>\n

Fighting continues<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other developments, Libyan government forces\u00a0renewed their assault on the opposition-held town of Zintan in the western mountains late on Monday.<\/p>\n

Abdulrahman, a rebel spokesman, said at least 10 Grad rockets had been fired on the town, Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n

“They were fired by Gaddafi forces position north of Zintan,” he said.<\/p>\n

Early on Monday, troops loyal to Gaddafi launched a new incursion into the opposition-held city of Misurata.<\/p>\n

Hassan al-Misrati, an opposition spokesman, said Gaddafi’s forces\u00a0were shelling the besieged city.<\/p>\n

He also\u00a0accused NATO\u00a0of neglecting its duty to\u00a0defend Libyan\u00a0civilians from Gaddafi’s bombardments.<\/p>\n

But another opposition\u00a0spokesman said the government attacks ceased after NATO air strikes.<\/p>\n

“There were strikes by NATO on the outskirts of the city today at around midday (10:00 GMT),” the spokesman, called Reda, told the Reuters news agency by telephone.<\/p>\n

“The port is still closed. Gaddafi’s forces bombarded it earlier today. The bombardment has now stopped.”<\/p>\n

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