FRANCE has condemned Turkey’s “aggressive” intervention in Libya in support of the Tripoli-based government, which has included flooding the North African country with thousands of jihadists.

The statement by a French presidential official came a few days after protesters took to the streets of the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday to demand an end to Turkish interference.

Paris has been angered by an “even more aggressive and insistent stance from Turkey, with seven Turkish ships deployed off the Libyan coast and violations of the arms embargo,” according to the official, who did not wish to be named.