Turkey’s water war on Syria
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Turkey has deliberately withheld water flow from the Euphrates to Syria, thus stealing the country's share from this river and that caused a water crisis in the north and east of the country. Plus, citizens in the northeastern part of Syria are still suffering from water shortage as the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries repeatedly stop operating Allouk water station near the occupied city of Ras Al-Ayn, thereby cutting off water supplies to Hasakah neighborhoods, threatening around a million people with thirst and damaging the agriculture there.
Syria Times interviewed Dr. Pablo Sapag, a Professor at Madrid Complutense University and author of the book “Syria in Perspective” to shed light on the Turkish aggressive behavior, on the consequences of this inhuman act on the citizens and agriculture in the Syrian Al-Jazira region and on the world’s silence and inaction to pressure Turkey to stop this crime.
“Turkey’s behavior regarding water issues vis-a-vis Syria is not just humanly irresponsible and cruel but profoundly contrary to international law. It goes also against the very few formal commitments it has previously acquired with Syria on the matter. Even though Turkey is one of the few states that has not signed it, let alone to ratify the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention -in fact it has been stubbornly against it, there are several previous pieces of mandatory international law that clearly regulate the use and share of water by riparian states. The latter is the case of Turkey, Syria and Iraq when talking about the Euphrates and also the Tigris rivers,” Prof. Sapag said, pointing out that Syria and Iraq signed and ratified the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention, but Turkey didn't.
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