CoD Cold War and the Turkish Connection

By E. Degage

British SAS and US SOF outside Trabzon, Turkey

Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, released late last year, was set proceeding the events of the first CoD Black Ops in the early to mid 80s. The usual anachronistic and outright “farb” weapons and equipment from the previous Black Ops installment are prevalent.

There is a mission briefly set in Trabzon, Turkey in order to assassinate an HVT. The assassination ended up being botched, so Bell, your character and his allies exfiltrate the area. While a spectacular firefight on a small Trabzon airfield is purely fictional, American intelligencr agencies cooperating with the Turkish is not.

Abdullah Öcalan was the founder of the Kurdish PKK, a far-left wing militant organization based in Turkey which demanded the recognition and independence of the Kurdish populace in Turkey and establishing a democratic confederalist nation.

He was arrested in Nairobi with the help of Turkish MIT, their intelligence agency and unofficially, the CIA.

FET has acquired unclassified photographs of CIA and SAS helping Turkish authorities catch any PKK members coming in by boat.