Rethinking Middle East Water and Turkey’s Water Diplomacy

Authors

  • Elif Çolakoğlu Atatürk University

Keywords:

Water, Water Security, Water Diplomacy, Turkey, the Middle East

Abstract

Turkey has rapidly descended its water resources is located in a region, in the Middle East, has very high level of competition and has occurred numerous examples of conflict in this regard. The people are living in troubled days under increasing water stress, especially even in cases of natural drought occurred in recent years, due to various reasons such as poor water management, increasing population, climate change. In this context, this study is a comprehensive evaluation related to Turkey's water resources in the context of environmental security. It is made comparative analysis of the hydro-politics of the country especially in the context of recent diplomatic initiatives occurred.

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References

Colakoglu, Elif, (2011), “Emniyetli İçme Suyu ve Sanitasyon Hakkı”, in Mulkiyeliler Birligi Dergisi, 272, XXXV, 217-238.

Colakoglu, Elif, (2008), Suya Erisim Baglaminda Su Guvenligi (Unpublished PhD Thesis), T.C. Ankara Universitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitusu Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yonetimi (Kent ve Cevre) Anabilim Dali, Ankara.

Gebze Institute of Technology Department of Environmental Engineering, (2009), Transboundary Waters and Turkey (Edited by Mehmet Karpuzcu, Mirat D. Gurol, Senem Bayar), Istanbul.

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Published

2015-05-11

How to Cite

Çolakoğlu, E. (2015). Rethinking Middle East Water and Turkey’s Water Diplomacy . European Journal of Transformation Studies, 3(1), 40–45. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/journal-transformation/article/view/13637

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Regular Papers