Turkiye has built multiple dams allowing it to limit the flow of water desperatedly needed to keep Iraq’s rivers from drying up.

Iraq and Turkiye plan to sign an agreement regarding the joint management of water resources, Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported on 2 November, following a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Baghdad.

“The main topic of the Turkish Foreign Minister’s (Hakan Fidan) visit was about water. We held extensive meetings in Ankara, and we reached understandings that were turned into a document, which will be signed within hours,” stated Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein during a joint press conference.

The Iraqi Foreign Minister added that “the first agreement of its kind between Iraq and Turkiye will regulate water management and relations between the two parties in this field.”

“We will sign the first water agreement between the two countries with Iraq, and we hope that it will open the door to the development of Iraqi water infrastructure,” Fidan stated, while thanking Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

In May 2025, Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Awn Dhiab Abdullah announced an agreement between Iraq and Turkiye to release 500 cubic meters per second of water from the Euphrates River each day.

Abdullah explained during a press conference that joint committees with Turkiye and Iran are continuing to work to ensure Iraq’s water quotas.

The minister pointed to “Iraq’s commitment to the framework agreement with Turkiye, which includes the implementation of infrastructure projects in the irrigation sector and ensuring the continuity of water releases.”

On Saturday, Iraq’s Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Water warned that the country is facing an environmental crisis, including worsening drought, water shortages, and rising pollution levels, which pose a direct threat to Iraq’s food and social security.

Ankara has built several massive dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, causing water levels downstream in Iraq to drop significantly in recent years.

Baghdad has long accused Turkiye of unfairly withholding water flowing to Iraq, which relies heavily on the rivers for agriculture and everyday use.

Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources has predicted that unless urgent action is taken, the country’s two main rivers will be dry by 2040.

Ankara has justified withholding the amount of water it does by accusing Baghdad of wasting the resource.

The Cradle Media report

Syria, who has been deprived of his crucial water resources  by the thieving zionist-Jews, too, has been massively affected by Turkey’s immoral, egocentric hogging.