Yasar Halit Cevik Quotes
You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.
Objecting to the United States supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga forces attacking ISIS in Syria when they were affiliated with the PKK an organization that used terror tactics to gain independence for Kurds in Turkey.
Yasar Halit Cevik, Interview with Judy Woodruff, PBS Evening News, Febuary 1, 2018
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The health infrastructure of Nigeria was up to the job of containing the Ebola epidemic of 2014, but the police and military, notoriously corrupt, had not joined their services to fight and risk their lives, and would not do so, thus allowing Boko Haram, a radical Islamic terrorist group to thrive in the North of the country where there was a large Muslim population. Finally, in 2015 the government moved against Boko Haram but only with partial success.
In 9 days they had forged alliances with tribal leaders
ISIS captured a Jordanian pilot whose plane had crashed and they tortured him and burned him alive making and promoting a video of terrible war crime. At enormous cost Abdullah’s agents and soldiers tracked down those appearing in the video and killing them.
Turkish Permenant Representative to the United Nations Prior to his latest appointment, Mr. Cevik was Undersecretary for Political Affairs at his country’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 2009, having previously served as Ambassador of Turkey to Syria from November 2004 to August 2009. In addition to holding several positions in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2004, including that of Deputy Director-General of Central Europe and Baltic Region, he worked in the Prime Minister’s Office as Deputy Special Adviser in 1999. In 1997, he served as First Counsellor at the Turkish Embassy in Beijing and in 1995, as Consul General of Turkey in Zurich. From December 1993 to August 1995, Mr. Çevik was Deputy Special Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, having served as Head of Section at the Ministry’s Department of Maritime Affairs in 1993. He was Counsellor at the Turkish Embassy in Athens in 1991 and Consul at the Turkish Consulate General in Athens in 1989. In 1987, Mr. Çevik was First Secretary at the Department of International Economic Organizations at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, he was Consul at the Turkish Consulate General in Stuttgart in 1983 and Second Secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Khartoum in 1981. He joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1979 as Third Secretary at the Department of Bilateral Economic Affairs. Mr. Çevik graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science in 1978. Born in Golcuk-Kocaeli, Turkey, in 1955, he is married with two daughters.
