Turkey’s Erdogan should come to terms with the “stark reality” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not fall anytime soon, former senior CIA official Graham E. Fuller notes, stressing that Erdogan’s personal interests are not synonymous with Turkey’s national interests.

Ankara is faced with the dilemma of choosing between pursuing its present foreign policy and returning to the more peaceful strategy it once followed, former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) at the CIA Graham E. Fuller underscores.