Links between NATO leaders have heated up over the conflict in Libya, where Turkey supports the internationally recognised government and accuses Paris of helping Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based forces, which attempted to capture Tripoli.

France denied support for Haftar's capital offensive and accused Turkish warships of hostile behaviour, after its own warship attempted to search a vessel in June that it claimed it had breached a UN weapons embargo against Libya.

"France should apologize to us instead of confronting Turkey with wrong information. France supported the wrong side in Libya," Cavusoglu said during a news conference in Berlin.

Since 2014, Libya has been split between opposing forces in Tripoli, home to the internationally-recognized National Accord Government (GNA), and in the North, where the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Haftar holds control.

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