Turkey's water policy and its impact on neighboring countries Arab Regional (Syria-Iraq)

Abstract

Water is an issue, of the most complex issues and problems faced by the relations Turkish-Arab, and the precise relationship with Iraq and Syria, which are also common issues between these countries, however, as well as cooperation in this case was weak, and the position of weakness which comes from the non-recognition of any party other rights, Turkey I thought from the beginning that the current in the Tigris and Euphrates water is a Turkish waters because they stem from Turkish soil, and therefore it is not legally bound to give a fixed quota for countries riparian with them at the time interested in estimating need two of the waters of the Tigris and the Euphrates, and it's It is committed to international laws which provide that no harm others, so it is ready to deal with Iraq and Syria to provide them with water provided it does not contradict the interests of the country and in the establishment of economic and development projects, and for this we find it handled this issue in a roundabout way, in contrast, the two tried to political particular stand Turkish and demanded their rights and legal waters of the Tigris and Euphrates, but they did not reach a common solution to agree upon the face of Turkey's water policy but was disagreement between the two is the most prominent in this case, making Turkey to exploit this difference to their advantage, and building on what we've had, we find that the biggest affected by politics water for Turkey is Iraq as the latest recipient State of the rivers, at a time when Turkey has sought to employ economic and political interventions of Turkey towards the countries of the region so as to provide them an important function in the pioneering policies in the regional order in the Middle East, through the insistence of Turkey to move forward on a broad project scale in Southeast Anatolia, in order to provide the border areas of energy and sources of irrigation to make it a gathering of grains, fruits and vegetables to countries of the Middle East point, continuing its commitment not to consider the Tigris and Euphrates rivers international, but Nhrien crossing the border and the purpose of allowing itself Bastosmaarhama according to their interest and to build dams, according to the perceptions and to allow them to Pthoelhma ((political card)) in the future to control the life of Syria and Iraq of water, which benefit from the differences the two countries, but also works to sustain its plans to build the water away from the unified Arab vision.