Answer:
Turkey mobilised its forces when it cut the Euphrates to fill the Atatürk Dam, temporarily reducing water flow into Syria and Iraq by 75 per cent. Iraq threatened to blow up the dam, which led Turkey to threaten to cut off the water flow to Syria and Iraq completely.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Euphrates-Tigris Basin is shared between Turkey, Syria and Iraq, with Iran comprising parts of the Tigris basin. Since the 1960s, unilateral irrigation plans altering the flows of the rivers, coupled with political tensions between the countries, have strained relations in the basin.
Iraq and Syria have built their own big dams on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. But Turkey's dams dominate the rivers, especially the Euphrates. ... Iraqi officials estimate that the project will dehydrate 670,000 hectares of arable land in the country.