Former US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
“We share with deep sadness that Secretary Carter passed away on Monday evening, at the age of 68, of a sudden heart attack in Boston,” Carter’s family, who served as secretary of defense for the last two years of Barack Obama’s term, said in a written statement. statement was included.
The statement noted:
“As the 25th Secretary of Defense and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School at Harvard, Carter devoted his professional life to U.S. national security and educating students about international relations. He was a good mentor and friend, husband and father. Ani His loss will be felt by everyone who knew him.”
Carter, who served between 2015 and 2016, the most controversial years of Obama’s foreign policy, had an important role in supporting the PKK/YPG terrorist organization under the pretext of fighting DAESH.
Carter, whom Lindsey Graham put pressure on with questions in a session on defense in the Congress, admitted that the YPG is the Syrian extension of the PKK. (AA)