DEFINING THE POLITICAL/ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLD FOR THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS RIVERS.
From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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Date: 3/22/2000
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Author: Kolars, John
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PROFESSOR TOMANBAY'S ARTICLE presenting Turkey's approach to the utilization of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers demonstrates the keen nationally focused attention brought to the problem by each of the three riparians sharing the two rivers. Essays on the same subject by either Syrian or Iraqi authors would present equally persuasive yet nationally focused accounts of the situation.
While Tomanbay's essay emphasizes the "Right of Sovereignty" to water originating on Turkish ...
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