War by definition
is known as a battle between two or several parties, either in a battle in a
specific place, or on the ground of one of the parties to the conflict, as
happened in ancient times.
Until the Cold War
came and revealed new forms of war, such as proxy wars or a war by racing to
obtain more deadly and advanced weapons (Nuclear weapons), or reaching points
before your enemy, as in the case of reaching space
In the year 2011
the crisis began in Syria, where the external parties in the crisis used almost
all kinds of weapons and some of them tried their new weapons on Syrian
territory.
External parties
applied all kinds of known warfare or new forms in it, such as what Turkey is
doing by using water as a weapon, and thirst as a modern kind of war against
the Kurds in particular and the Syrians in general.
Water is the basis of life on our planet, and life on the planet does
not continue without water, as all creatures need water to survive, and it is
known that early civilizations existed alongside places where water was
available, where water was used in all aspects of life, including irrigation,
trade, construction and transportation.
Euphrates River
The most important dams in Syria were built on this river, which
supplies several provinces in Syria with drinking and irrigation water, as
agriculture is one of the main resources in the Syrian economy, in addition to
the largest power plant that supplies millions in Syria with electricity.
Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria
Turks have always viewed the Kurds as enemies, and their statehood
threatens Turkey's existence. The crisis in Syria greatly served the Kurds, as
the Kurds exploited the deteriorating situation and the weakness of the Syrian
state in order to establish influence in the Kurdish areas in Syria.
Autonomous Administration in Syria, which calls for the establishment of
a region that transcends pluralism and includes all ethnicities and
nationalities, submits to Autonomous Administration large areas in northern and
eastern Syria with a Kurdish majority, and these lands include the Euphrates
River and the dam that provides water and electricity.
Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria and Turkey has supported the
rebels against the Syrian state, in addition to its control over areas that
were subject to Autonomous Administration with the help of these rebellions, as
Turkey opposes Autonomous Administration and sees its presence as a threat to
it.
Turkey entered the conflict with the Autonomous Administration by
launching a massive war on the lands under their controls, and transformed them
into areas of own influence in the Syrian conflict and established its schools
in them and pumped its collapsing currency into this area.
The roots of the Turkish-Kurdish differences come from the armed
conflict with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Turkey sees as the one
who supports the Autonomous Administration in Syria.
Through these accusations, the Turkish forces and the rebels loyal to
them invaded the Afrin region and turned it into a Turkish colony, in which
many civilians were killed in this attack in addition to displacing half of the
region's population.
Last year, the Turkish army and the rebel army supported by them
attacked large areas on the border strip with the Autonomous Administration and
led to the imposition of Turkish control over large areas extending from Ras
al-Ain to Gire Spi.
The result of the war is displacement of thousands of civilians and the
killings of hundreds of innocent people. Also, control of the lifeline in the
area which supplies about one million people with water, according to the
reports of the United Nations.
Water
War
Since the Turks
took control of Ras al-Ain, they have been threatening to cut off water from
the areas that derive water from that predominantly Kurdish city, and have put
pressure on the Autonomous Administration for the sake of Turkish interests and
their rebel allies.
United Nations
reports say that Turkey is preventing repairs in the water station and
threatening to cut off water to nearly a million people in the region. This
makes life almost impossible in those areas, and pressures push them to
displace to other autonomous areas or to neighboring countries such as the
Kurdistan region of Iraq.
This summer, Turkey
decided to reduce the water level of the Euphrates River, which supplies more
than 3 million residents of the Autonomous Administration areas with water,
which led to an imminent humanitarian disaster, preventing water from millions
of residents of the region.
Turkey and its
rebels cut off water to nearly a million people in the city of Hasaka for a
month, which contradicts international agreements and the Syrian-Turkish
agreement on the percentage of the Euphrates water.
Turkey turned a
blind eye to these agreements and exercised the ugliest forms of pressure on the
region’s residents, especially the Kurds.
Consequences of Water Deprivation
According to international news agencies, Turkey has built new dams on
the course of the Euphrates River and prevents water from Syrian lands, which
will lead to depriving Syrians of water in addition to depriving them of electricity,
which depends on the station located in the Euphrates Dam in the Syrian city of
Raqqa.
Regarding the electricity, which since the beginning of the crisis in
Syria and the whole country complains of a lack of electricity supply, and the
population gets a number of hours determined by the party that controls the
stations for its part.
Autonomous Administration stated that the hours of electricity that it
supplies to its areas of control will be reduced by half due to the inability
of the plant to generate electricity due to water cuts.
Agriculture raises the alarm bell. Residents of Autonomous
Administration areas depend heavily on agriculture and this water irrigates
large areas of the area and is the main source of income, and this deprivation will
seriously affect their presence in the region.
Invisible Intentions
Turkey and its rebel allies insist on expelling the Kurds from their
areas of control and strengthening their presence in northern Syria through
repeated military operations or through cutting off water and depriving
civilians of water.
Some researchers believe that Turkey, through these practices, seeks to
ethnic cleanse the Kurdish-majority region by putting pressure on
self-administration, displacing civilians and replacing them with the families
of its rebels.
Also, the Turkish president said in a speech to the United Nations about
Turkey's intention to resettle Arabs living as refugees in Turkey in areas that
the Kurds evacuate due to military operations or other pressures exerted by
Turkey and its rebels.
Written by- Abduljalil Hage
Edited by – Adrija Saha
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