"Water turns Turkey into regional power
(AFP)
21 March 2005
ANKARA - If there is one thing that gives leverage in the arid Middle East it’s water—and Turkey has plenty of it.
But Turkey’s water wealth—it is home to sources of the Euphrates and Tigris along with 24 other large river basins—has also been a source of tension with its water-starved southern neighbors, Syria and Iraq.
As the world marks the 13th World Water Day Tuesday, analysts say the wave of democratisation in Iraq and Syria is a source of hope that lingering ill feeling over the share of the region’s water may be amicably solved."
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