Clarification about the Army searching 2 Turkish ships

Friday, 22 July 2016


The Army Headquarters- Directorate of Orientation issued the following statement:

 

In clarification of what has been broadcasted by some media outlets regrading the Army searching 2 Turkish ships in Tripoli port for being suspicious, the Army command would like to state that what the LAF did was a part of routine security measures and that the ships entered Lebanon in a legal manner, were loaded with different merchandise and did not contain any forbidden items.