Turkey offers Gadafy exit 'guarantee'

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0611/1224298737530.html

TURKISH PRIME Minister Tayyip Erdogan said last night his country had offered a “guarantee” to Libyan leader Muammar Gadafy if he left Libya, but said Ankara had received no answer.

“Gadafy has no way out but to leave Libya, through the guarantees given to him, it seems,” Mr Erdogan said in an interview.

“We ourselves have offered him this guarantee, via the representatives we’ve sent. We told him we would help him to be sent wherever he wanted to be sent. We would discuss the issue with our allies, according to the response we receive. Unfortunately we still haven’t got a response from Gadafy.” Mr Erdogan did not specify what kind of guarantee his country had offered to Gadafy.

Meanwhile, rebel forces in the besieged city of Misurata suffered their heaviest casualties since taking control of the city in mid-April yesterday, with pro-Gadafy forces launching a heavy bombardment hours after Nato Apache helicopter strikes in the area.