Libya security officials deny authorizing FM’s escape flight to Turkey

Libyans burn tires as they protest in Tripoli on August 28, 2023, after news broke of a recent meeting between the country's foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)
Libyans burn tires as they protest in Tripoli on August 28, 2023, after news broke of a recent meeting between the country's foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)

A Libyan security agency denies authorizing the departure of the Tripoli-based government’s foreign minister on a flight to Turkey after protests flared over a meeting she had with her Israeli counterpart.

The Internal Security Agency (ISA) says Najla Mangoush had not been authorized to leave Libyan territory.

Multiple officials confirm she left Turkey, but the ISA denies this.

“Surveillance cameras will prove this” is false, the ISA says in a statement.

Mangoush “is on the travel ban list until she submits to the investigation,” says the security agency.

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