Justice and Development Party (JDP) came to power in Turkey at a time when the “responsibility to protect” appeared as a concept on the international agenda. Emphasizing multilateralism and humanitarian diplomacy among the principles of “new” Turkish foreign policy, JDP has constantly supported the concept on international platforms, mostly referring to the “responsibility to prevent” as the most important pillar of it. When the Arab Spring reached Libya with anti-government demonstrations in February 2011, forceful actions of Gaddafi regime against the protestors showed that the crisis would not end up with a peaceful democratic transition. Alarmed by the Libyan opposition to become “the saviour”, the international community did not hesitate to invoke the “responsibility to protect” through Resolutions 1970 and 1973. Yet these decisions had challenging repercussions on Turkish foreign policy. Turkey increasingly felt the pressure of its bilateral relations with Libya, its claim to be a regional power, and its responsibilities under international law. This paper aims to analyse Turkey’s responsibility to protect policy in Libya and whether its policy was in tandem with that of international community. For this purpose, Turkey’s policy vis-à-vis the Libyan crisis is examined through a qualitative analysis of official discourse by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Security Council together with the statements of policymakers to the foreign press. The study concludes that Turkey has fulfilled its responsibility to protect in Libya and acted in the spirit of “responsibility to protect” even at times the international community explicitly failed to so. For this reason, Turkey’s policy was not in line with the international community in every pillar of the norm. Yet Turkey’s insistence to design and lead the process in line with its own foreign policy preferences prevented Ankara from being the “quarterback” in Libya.