"Foreign Intervention in Libya must be motivated only by humanitarian concerns"
"Europe must heed and support the calls for freedom emanating from the Arab world, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said.
"We cannot look at those regions and see only oil wells and not the poverty and the yearnings of those people"
And he stressed that any foreign military intervention "must be motivated solely by humanitarian concerns", saying: "We do not want a new Iraq or Afghanistan".
"The situation in Libya but also in Palestine must be assessed through the prism of humanitarian values," Erdogan said.
He also called for the establishment of a civilian government in Egypt "as soon as possible" and said he was closely monitoring the unrest in Libya, Tunisia and Bahrain.
Turkey was to present a "roadmap" on Wednesday to end the turmoil in Libya at the first meeting of the international contact group on Libya in Doha, Qatar.
"Turkey is able to communicate with all the parties and can play a major role in the search for peace," Erdogan said.
Turning to his country's bid to join the European Union, he said "it must be treated fairly and promises must be kept."
"My country needs the EU and the EU needs Turkey," Erdogan said, highlighting his country's "historic reforms since 2002 in the areas of democracy and the fight against corruption and poverty."
"Those who think that (Turkish) accession would harm their prosperity are doing injustice to Turkey but also to Europe and their own people," he added.
