The Turkish water projects on the Tigris and Euphrates

The London- based al-Quds al-Arabi daily said in its Friday's issue that the Turkish water projects on the Tigris and the Euphrates which count 21 dams and 19 electricity generation stations besides irrigation infrastructure estimated at US $ 32 billion will affect the water flow of the Euphrates river and consequently will have an adverse impact on the economics of the river's basin especially on Syria and Iraq.

In an article written by Salah Taha, the paper added that Turkey's implementation of these projects indicates that it wants to control the waters of the region through imposing its conditions on those who use this water, especially in the coming decades when waters will much more valuable than oil.

The paper said that Turkey's desire to impose full hegemony on the Euphrates river as its waters is a natural Turkish resource of no less importance than the oil owned by the majority of the Arab states. A hegemony which is a flagrant violation to the International law over waters of international rivers as well as a violation to the rights of others in their fair shares of waters.