Turkey says told Gaddafi to appoint a president

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he told Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi he should appoint a president with popular support as a way to end the country's crisis, Al Arabiya television reported on Monday.



Erdogan told Al Arabiya in an interview he expected Gaddafi to take "positive steps in this direction"."We want a halt to the fighting by both of the sides, both in the east and west of Libya," he said.