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 Project to generate electricity ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ...

Residents, however, say an SDF attempt last week to relieve the dam's water levels by opening a canal from the Balikh River that flows into the Euphrates had flooded cultivated agricultural land ...

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