Algerian Foreign Ministry

Turkey held talks with Algeria on the crisis in Libya as part of efforts made by Algeria to convince rival parties in the restive Arab country to sit down at the negotiation table, according to an Algerian diplomatic source.

The Foreign Ministry has warned Turkish citizens who are currently in Algeria and who plan to travel there to closely obey security practices and to notify officials of their travels inside the country.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) mentions that the presence of a Romanian citizen in the airliner of Air Algerie crashed on Thursday could not be confirmed so far; information on the number of passengers and of their citizenships is contradictory, the ministry states in a release to AGERPRES.