Turkey continues to use the water of the Euphrates River

Turkey continues to use the water of the Euphrates River as a weapon against the inhabitants of northern and eastern Syria, leading to environmental disasters and jeopardizing agricultural production in almost all regions.

Mohammed Tarbush, general director of the Tishrin Dam, confirmed: "Since January 28, Turkey has reduced the level of water entering Syria from the Euphrates by 60%." Ahmed al-Awsu, an engineer and head of the Tabqa Dam sluice section, said: "The volume of water pumped from Turkey is very low, which does not exceed 150 cubic meters." He stressed that "the reduction in the volume of pumping water from Turkey has led to a narrowing of the Euphrates River by more than 300 meters."

Reducing water supplies is Turkey's way of provoking demographic changes in the Syrian regions.

A cascade of dams, constructed by Turkey at the end of the 20th century in the Southeastern part, provided full control over the supply of water from the Euphrates River to Syria. The Turkish humanitarian war began in 1987 after the commissioning of the Ataturk Dam. In the early 2000s, as a result of Turkey's actions in Syria, a severe drought began, which forced most of the rural population to move to cities. Blocking water systematically pushes people towards massive displacement and Turkey will effortlessly occupy the northern territories. Thanks to its own control over the flow of water Turkey will stop the drainage of the Euphrates River.

It should be noted that Turkey is deliberately disrupting negotiations with the Syrian side on the supply of water. On 4 September, the Minister of Water Resources of Iraq, whose population also suffers from water shortages, met with the Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad, Ali Riza Gunei.

Initially, the meeting was supposed to be trilateral, with the participation of representatives of Turkey, Iraq and Syria, but at the last moment the Turks announced a bilateral meeting in Baghdad, as a result of which Syria was left out of the discussion of water problems. The envoy of Turkey announced his country's readiness to solve the water problems of Iraq and satisfy its needs, but the Turks didn’t remember about the Syrian people.