Ankara (ANTARA News/AFP) - Turkey has offered a "guarantee" to Moamer Kadhafi in return for his departure from Libya but has received no reply, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.

Kadhafi "has no other option than to leave Libya -- with a guarantee to be given to him... We have given him this guarantee. We have told him we will help him to be sent wherever he wants to go," Erdogan said on NTV television, without specifying what the assurances entailed.

"Depending on the reply we will get from him, we will take up the issue with our (NATO) allies, but unfortunately we have received no reply so far," he said. (*)

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