Arab League chief: Turkish tensions in Caucasus, East Med will 'not end well'
Turkey’s role in increased regional tension in the Caucasus and Mediterranean regions “will not end well” for the country, the head of the Arab League said on Sunday, according to Ahval news outlet.
“Turkey is facing a group of differences with regional and superpower parties to a degree that will not end well for it or its leadership,’’ Saudi-based Arab News cited Secretary-General of the league, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, as saying in a televised statement.
The Arab League secretary-general referred to Turkey's ''military involvement in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Libya,'' and Ankara’s tensions with Greece and Cyprus over hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey’s interference in the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh.
“It annoys me that the Syrians use mercenaries to fight with Azerbaijan against Armenia ... It is very sad that Syrian mercenaries are being used by Erdogan in cases that are unrelated to Turkey,” Aboul Gheit said.