Turkish water policy towards Iraq

الملخص

Life in general, and humanity in particular, cannot exist, or continue and develop without water, and the availability of water varies from one region to another, as well as from one country to another. Given that the Arab region is located in the driest part of the world where there is less rainfall, the renewable water resources in the Arab region They are limited, and even relatively rare, compared to the growing population. In addition, to the fact that the surface water resources in most Arab countries are shared waters with countries outside the region, which threatens the security and safety of these resources despite the international agreements concluded between both upstream and downstream countries.The water crisis in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers represents a model for the water crisis in the Middle East. Turkey, as a country of origin, has a geographical and strategic advantage represented in complete control of each of these rivers in the face of the two riparian states with it, Syria and Iraq. The water problem between Iraq and Turkey emerged for the first time in the mid-seventies of the last century. The impact of Turkey’s construction of the Kiban Dam, one of the huge dams and storing water in it, and the water shortage in Iraq has reached a great extent, due to the deficit in the water balance between the limited supply and increasing demand for water and if the core of our research is focused on the water problem between Iraq and Turkey, then the purpose of our research, in addition to its scientific dimensions, and the revealing lights it can shed on its multiple aspects, is to alert the present and future of this country from the dangerous and possibly catastrophic consequences and consequences that the future of Iraq may face. As a result of water projects related to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by the neighboring countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran, which led to these countries bypassing Iraq's water rights in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as a result of the illegal practices followed in the projects of the mentioned countries.