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German warship searches Libya-bound Turkish freighter

by Suzan Fraser
| November 23, 2020 9:27 AM

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Germany were at loggerheads on Monday after a German frigate enforcing an arms embargo against Libya intercepted a Turkish freighter in the Mediterranean sea and carried out what a senior Turkish official dismissed as an “illegal" search.

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