Yes but it is nothing new in terms of the hydropolitics on these rivers. Iraq can’t invade to make the waters flow and the drought end. And there is already active conflict on the border between Turkey and the Kurds. So it is ugly enough and like Aaron Wolf’s work has established, lots of saber rattling on transboundary water conflicts, not (yet) a outright war.
Yes but it is nothing new in terms of the hydropolitics on these rivers. Iraq can’t invade to make the waters flow and the drought end. And there is already active conflict on the border between Turkey and the Kurds. So it is ugly enough and like Aaron Wolf’s work has established, lots of saber rattling on transboundary water conflicts, not (yet) a outright war.