Turkey on Saturday rebuffed French President Emmanuel Macron’s call on foreign powers to remove their forces from Libya as part of efforts turn on a page on a decade of strife. The North African country has been mired in civil war since the overthrow of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 uprising. The bloodshed has drawn in competing Libyan factions and Islamist groups as well as foreign powers. Turkey sent troops as well as pro-Ankara militia units from Syria to shore up the UN-recognised government in Tripoli while Russia and other countries supported the eastern-based strongman Khalifa Hafta…

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