Water Conflicts in Northern Syria

Year 2017, Issue: 4, 58 - 61, 30.08.2017

Sinan Uzundumlu Oğuzhan Akyener

Abstract

Water although usually is not considered as the most important fluid in the public view, its importance and staminality can easily be understood during the privation. In today’s world, while some regions have plenty of water, in the other side, some parts are being lack of it.

As mentioned above, the importance of water can be understood, while losing it. Then water becomes one of the most strategic items for countries, when there is a risk of drought.

Turkey is one of the luckiest countries having plenty of fresh water resources. And some of its resources are huge rives flowing to the neighbor countries.

Euphrates is one of them. It has more than 2800 km’s length and nearly 1 tones per second flow rate. It flows from Turkey to Northern Syria. To control the river, Turkey has Ataturk Dam in its borders. And in Syria there are Tishrin and Euphrates Dams in the entrance of the lake. There are many conflicts experienced between Syria and Turkey related with the utilization and flow rate homogeneity of the river.

Currently, in the international public view, a new unfair perceptional operation is tried to be activated against Turkey, which claims that:

• Turkey has cut the Euphrates and all the Northern innocent Syrians are left in a situation of being lack of water.

• They are snatching to death due not to be able to reach drinking water.

• Turkey is delinquent according to the 64/292 numbered decision of UN Resolution Agreement

However, these accusations are directed and organized/financed by some dirty enemies of the humanity and the peace. And they are all unfair perceptions.

In this study, the situation of the current due dynamics in the region will be described and by evaluating the due UN resolution, accusations among the Turkey will be rebutted.

Keywords

water conflicts, northern syria

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