KMB confers 'Gaddafi Prize' to Erdogan

Erdogan, who is guest of honor at the Third European Union-Africa Summit has been granted the award  by the Libya’s human rights committee.

The Turkish Prime Minister has been invited to attend the summit by Libyan  Leader Muammar Gaddafi
He  is also expected to meet top Libyan officials to enhance the recently flourishing bilateral relations between the two countries, Libyan news agency Jana said.

The award carries a money prize and it is given annually to "international personalities, bodies or organizations that have distinctively contributed to rendering an outstanding human service, and who have achieved great actions in defending human rights, protecting the causes of freedom and supporting peace everywhere in the world".

The Prize was established in accordance with the decisions of the Libyan People's Congress, which has the authority and sovereignty in the Libyan Jamahiriya, in the name of the leader, Muammar Al-Qathafi.

The establishment of the award is the result of the Libyan leader's “appreciation and indebtedness of his role in consolidating direct democracy and the issuance of the Great Charter for Human Rights in the era of the masses that sacrifices freedom and human dignity. It calls for the emancipation of man from the shackles of fear.”