Atatürk Dam is Turkey’s largest. Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia ...

The SDF is backed by the United States as part of the war on Islamic State (IS), and Turkey backs the SNA. The clashes illustrate that the dam is at the crossroads of several key challenges in ...

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Over a thousand protesters from Kurdish areas in northeast Syria gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates River ... and injured 15 others. Turkey, for its part, accused ...

This essential water system comprises two rivers (known today as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) that flow North to South from Turkey to the Persian Gulf. The Tigris River begins at the Taurus ...

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TASS/. Ankara plans to enter Syria’s areas east of the Euphrates River as soon as possible, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. "If Turkey says that it will enter Syria ...