GAP provokes tensions between Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
A protocol about the share of water was annexed to the 1946 Treaty of Friendship and Good Neighbourly Relations between Iraq and Turkey. Turkey also promised to share related data and to allow 15.75 km³/year o r 500 m³/s of water arriving to Syria. In 1990, Turkey filled up the Atatürk reservoir that cut Euphrates flow to Syria and Iraq during about one month. Syria and Iraq blame Turkey for being responsible of many shortages and to turning water into a political weapon.
A protocol about the share of water was annexed to the 1946 Treaty of Friendship and Good Neighbourly Relations between Iraq and Turkey. Turkey also promised to share related data and to allow 15.75 km³/year o r 500 m³/s of water arriving to Syria. In 1990, Turkey filled up the Atatürk reservoir that cut Euphrates flow to Syria and Iraq during about one month. Syria and Iraq blame Turkey for being responsible of many shortages and to turning water into a political weapon.
From time to time the PKK (Kurdish terrorist) damages dams and canals.
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