(USASABAH)
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called on Libyan leader Moammer Kadhafi to halt his attacks on cities held by rebels and withdraw his forces.
"A real ceasefire should be settled immediately and military units of Kadhafi should remove the siege of some cities and withdraw back," Erdogan said in televised remarks disclosing his country's Libyan "road map".
Erdogan also urged the creation of secure humanitarian corridors to allow the delivery of aid to the Libyan people.
He also called for reforms to the political process.
"A comprehensive democratic transformation process that takes into account the legitimate interests of Libyan people should start immediately. The aim of this process should be to settle constitutional order that people freely elect their rulers," he said.
Erdogan said details would be made public before a meeting in the Qatari capital Doha next week of an international contact group set up to coordinate a political response to the Libya crisis.
A month ago, Erdogan suggested Gaddafi hand over power to an elected leader or authority. Those efforts came to nothing when Gaddafi responded defiantly to a U.N. resolution saying he should be investigated by the International Criminal Court.
Libyan rebels: "If Gaddafi steps down, We would be ready to accept this plan"
Both sides of the conflict currently raging in Libya have welcomed a peace proposal put forward by Turkey late Thursday. The head of the rebel transitional council, Mustafa Abdul Jalal, told Al Jazeera television that it would be ready to accept the proposal if Gaddafi and his family left the country.
There was also a positive response from Tripoli towards a plan which focused on the humanitarian aspects of the Libyan crisis, a government representative said on Al Jazeera.
The rebels had previously criticized Turkey for warning against delivering weapons to them. On Tuesday a Turkish ship carrying aid was turned away from the port of rebel stronghold of Benghazi.