David Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He was a Senior Adviser to the State Department working on U.S.-Turkey relations in the 1990s and 2000s. He authored “An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdoğan’s Dictatorship”. His most recent book is “The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East.”