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Turkey’s President’s Erdogan in Rare Iraq Visit to Discuss Water, Oil, Security
April 25th, 2024
Via Energy Daily, a report on Turkey’s President’s Erdogan rare visit to Iraq to discuss water, oil, and security: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Monday in neighbouring Iraq for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil and regional security issues expected to top the agenda. Erdogan was greeted with a 21-gun salute […]
Read more »Water Crisis Deepens In Istanbul Dams
November 9th, 2023
Via the Hurriyet Daily News, a report on Turkey – with Istanbul grappling with a worsening water crisis due to drought – is now seeing the water levels in three out of the ten dams supplying water to the country’s largest city have plummeted dangerously, falling nearly 3 percent: Experiencing one of the most severe droughts in recent […]
Read more »King of the Dammed: Turkey’s Landscape Changing For The Worse
October 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy a look at how Turkish President Erdogan’s mega-infrastructure projects are enriching construction companies while reshaping his country’s waterscape for the worse: On a humid midsummer morning, the fishermen of Tekelioglu, a village in western Turkey, gathered to talk about how their lake disappeared. The decline began a decade ago, they agreed, […]
Read more »Tigris–Euphrates Basin States Must Come Together To Address Water Crisis
October 18th, 2023
Via ASPI’s The Strategist, a look at the need for Tigris–Euphrates basin states to come together to address the water crisis: In a dramatic display of collective frustration, the streets of Baghdad recently became a theatre of dissent as around 300 Iraqis took to Nisour Square to protest acute water shortages. The demonstrations were held on 18 […]
Read more »Drought, Migration and the Fall of Civilization: A Cautionary Tale
October 16th, 2023
Via The Hill, commentary on similarities between today’s world and the rise/fall of Mesopotamia: The writer George Santayana once famously said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This adage seems especially poignant at this moment with the twin conflicts that are playing out in the Western and Eastern hemispheres. For, this […]
Read more »Analysis of Climate Security Risks In Iran and Türkiye
September 14th, 2023
Courtesy of The Council on Strategic Risks, a look at the climate security risks in Iran and Türkiye: As extreme weather this summer shows, no place is immune from climate change’s impact on the interconnected natural and human systems that underpin stability and security. Iran and Türkiye are two geopolitically critical countries that, despite not being […]
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