Water Crisis Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq and Its Implications
Water Crisis Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq and Its Implications

Author: Samreen Aamir

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The goal of this study is to look into the hidden dangers of water disputes among Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. Everyone is aware of the fact that natural resources like water is the building block of development of any country. Water is a valuable resource that is becoming increasingly scarce. With the passage of time, a sharp increase in population rise and, rise in food demand will be observed. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, together, are vital to Syria's and Iraq's economy and domestic requirements. According to some estimates, the River Euphrates provides around 85% of Syria's total renewable water supply, while River Tigris and River Euphrates together provide about 100% of Iraq's supply. Turkey accounts for 88.7% of the Euphrates basin's total water potential. The researchers have employed qualitative methodology for the research underhand and adopted thematic analysis as research method for this study. Researchers analyzed different research studies related to the issue and considered cases to the research-based statements of the individuals in power on the issue of water. Researchers looked at a variety of research studies on the topic and compared them to research-based claims made by individuals in positions of power on the topic of water.

Water Conflict Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Water Conflict Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Author: Ercan A. Cakmak

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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The states in the various regions of the world express that they will be able to set aside serious struggles to meet their water needs. However, since the 1980's Syria and Iraq, the southern neighbors of Turkey, have put forward some claims regarding the waters of Euphrates and Tigris originating from Turkey. These countries have tried various methods to hinder the workings on these rivers started by Turkey. Turkey states that the waters of Euphrates and Tigris are a symbol of peace and stability in the region for all three countries and that there is no problem to allocate it to her neighbors. This Strategy Research Project will illustrate the significance of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers originating from Turkey and providing important water resources for Syria and Iraq. It will also explore the GAP project improved by Turkey to utilize the waters of these rivers rationally and summarize the thesis of riparian countries regarding the sharing of waters.

Negotiating International Water Rights
Negotiating International Water Rights

Author: Muserref Yetim

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0857729535

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Transboundary watercourses account for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater flow and support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Yet the indeterminate status of water rights in many international watercourses presents a problem and many attempts to resolve water rights issue have failed. Knowing how and where negotiations fail is essential if successful resolution is to be achieved. Muserref Yetim's important book seeks to illustrate a means to the peaceful resolution of natural resource based conflicts. Through a detailed study of the Tigris-Euphrates water conflict, involving Turkey, Syria and Iraq, countries of vital security interest to the world at large, the author clarifies the collective action dilemmas confronting Middle Eastern watercourses and reveals the bargaining bottlenecks where negotiations fail. She develops an original framework that explains bargaining failures and proposes conditions for creating a new property rights regime among watercourse states that offers a route to governing their shared water resources in ways that are politically, economically and environmentally sound. In almost all water scarce regions, international water resources are subject to intense unilateral exploitation in a highly competitive fashion. And as demand for freshwater continues to increase, through increasing urbanization and the continuing development of societies, so the issue of how such shared water resources can best be governed is becoming vitally important. Negotiating International Water Rights offers both a timely contribution to a matter of international concern and important insights into resource conflict in countries of vital security interest to the world at large.

The War That Never Happened
The War That Never Happened

Author: Mehmet Yilmaz

Publisher:

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9781423512516

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Most recent studies and reports indicate that there is a significant risk of conflict over water sharing in the Middle East because of scarcity. Apart from exaggerating the scarcity of water resources and the likelihood of war, the major flaw of these assessments is that they just identify and do not solve the problem of water scarcity. The idea that water scarcity is the main source of conflict in the region is too narrow. Because water is so essential to life, even hostile coriparians have historically sought to compromise rather go to war over this resource, even as disputes have raged on other issues. The historical record is predominantly cooperation rather than conflict when it comes to water sharing. This thesis provides a clear description of why water scarcity has not caused a violent conflict between Turkey, Syria and Iraq in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin.

Water and Conflict in the Middle East
Water and Conflict in the Middle East

Author: Marcus Dubois King

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0197552633

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This volume explores the role of water in the Middle East's current economic, political and environmental transformations, which are set to continue in the near future. In addition to examining water conflict from within the domestic contexts of Iraq, Yemen and Syria-- all experiencing high levels of instability today--the contributors shed further light on how conflict over water resources has influenced political relations in the region. They interrogate how competition over water resources may precipitate or affect war in the Middle East, and assess whether or how resource vulnerability impacts fragile states and societies in the region and beyond. Water and Conflict in the Middle East is an essential contribution to our understanding of turbulence in this globally significant region.

Turkey's Water Policy
Turkey's Water Policy

Author: Aysegul Kibaroglu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-08-19

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3642196365

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Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is crucial to social and economic development. Turkey’s current national water regime that emphasises water resources development and management for productive uses, however, faces growing environmental concerns and international criticism regarding transboundary water cooperation. Furthermore, EU accession requires Turkey to adopt an extensive and ambitious body of EU water law. To understand Turkey’s position to international water law, the national policies and socio-economic circumstances that impact water resources management need to be considered. This book fills the existing knowledge gap through a broad perspective and analysis of the current state of Turkey’s water policy and its management of both national and transboundary waters. It is a unique undertaking that brings together Turkish and international authors, practitioners and academics, covering all aspects of water management