father predecessor successor succession house mother birth_place religion title birth_date issue spouse image article_title name reign
king faisal kamal adham bandar bin sultan nawwaf bin abdulaziz adel al jubeir director states of the general intelligence ambassador to the united house of saud iffat al-thunayan mecca islam prince turki bin faisal al saud 15 february 1945 faisal abdulaziz nouf bint fahd bin khalid al saud turki bin faisal al saud 2014.jpg turki bin faisal al saud
 turki bin faisal al saud 1979 -- 2001 2005 -- 2007
turki bin faisal al saud

turki bin faisal al saud -lrb- arabic : تركي الفيصل -rrb- -lrb- born 15 february 1945 -rrb- , known also as turki al faisal , is a member of the house of saud , the saudi arabia royal family .
he is one of the founders of the king faisal foundation and serves as chairman of the king faisal center for research and islamic studies .
from 1977 to 2001 , prince turki was the director general of al mukhabarat al a'amah , saudi arabia 's intelligence agency , resigning the position on 1 september 2001 , some ten days before the september 11 attacks in which 14 saudi nationals hijacked commercial american airliners .
prince turki subsequently served as ambassador to the court of st. james 's and the united states .
