Erdoğan victorious over Sarkozy and Cameron

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Libya on Thursday for the first time since Gaddafi's fall. The goal is to assert their influence in the country but the conservative daily Lidové noviny sees someone else, who is visiting the country today, Friday, as the big winner of the conflicts in Libya: "For the Arabs the true victor is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. How can this be possible given that Turkey got upset about the attack on Gaddafi and long remained silent on Syria? Well, among other things because Ankara supports Hamas and is taking a hard line against Israel. Those who believed that Europe's backing for the Arab Spring would earn it political rewards were wrong. If Europe wants to boost pro-European sentiment it must first cross Hamas off its list of terrorists and then criticise Israel. Is this what we want to do?"

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