Foreign Policy

Turks, Kurds & Twitter – What It All Means

by Charles "Sam" Faddis January 15, 2019January 15, 2019

Ground Truth – Episode 10

For over twenty years we have tried to “paper” over the changes in Turkey…

Sam Faddis discusses the changes in our relationship which are likely coming, following President Trump’s recent tweets to Turkey, a NATO ally – that the Turks should not take the U.S. withdrawal from Syria as a reason to go after the Kurds.

Charles "Sam" Faddis

Charles S. (Sam) Faddis, Senior Partner- Artemis, LLC is a former CIA operations officer with thirty years of experience in the conduct of intelligence operations in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe. His last assignment prior to retirement in May of 2008 was as head of the CIA's terrorist Weapons of Mass Destruction unit. He took the first CIA team into Iraq in the Summer of 2002 in advance of the invasion of that country and has worked extensively in the field with law enforcement, local security forces and special operations teams. Since retirement, he has written extensively, provided training to a wide variety of government and private entities and appears regularly on radio and television.