Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the European Union's decision to launch a maritime effort focused on enforcing the UN arms embargo around Libya.

Erdogan accused the countries that agreed to the operation of “interfering in the region”. He also welcomed a decision by Libya's UN-supported government, the GNA, to withdraw from the peace talks with rival commander Khalifa Haftar’s LNA, following an attack on a strategic port of the country’s capital, Tripoli.

“I want to specifi...