Turkish FM conveys well-wishes to Libyan minister

ANKARA

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday spoke over the phone with Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha.

On Sunday, Bashagha survived an assassination attempt as his convoy was fired on with machine guns from a pickup truck while he was on the way to his residence in Janzur, west of the capital Tripoli.

According to Turkish diplomatic sources, Cavusoglu conveyed well-wishes to Bashagha.

Meanwhile, the Turkish foreign minister also spoke with his Uzbek counterpart Abdulaziz Kamilov over the phone. No further details of the meeting were provided.