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Interview with Helmut Sorge, columnist, on the Turkish military operation in Syria

October 17, 2019
Related topics: 
Security & Defense
Armed conflicts

Questions : 1/ Which will be the consequences of the Turkish military operation in Syria? 2/ Did Washington betray its Kurdish allies? 3/ Will Isis be strenghtened by the Turkish move?

Speakers
Helmut Sorge
Columnist
Helmut Sorge is a columnist at the Policy Center for the New South, where he publishes opinion pieces in the format of international press reviews of current events related to the Middle East and European affairs, and conducts interviews with high level policy makers and PCNS researchers. He is also a lecturer on journalism and the media. For over 40 years, Helmut Sorge served as a writer, former Foreign correspondent, Foreign editor, and Middle East expert for Germany's leading newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" to Washington, London, Paris and Los Angeles. He reported from Vietnam, the Middle East, wrote about safaris, nuclear accidents, visited prisoners on death row in the United States. The German weekly “Gala” summarized in 2011, when his latest book, a collection of biographies ...

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