MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DRY KURDISTAN – Iraq’s Sadr Deeply Concerned over Turkey, Iran Water Sanctioning

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)BasNews  – 03/06/2018 – 10:55 – ERBIL – Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, head of Sa’eroun Alliance, the winner of the recent parliamentary election, warned on Sunday his country’s government of cutting off water flows coming into Iraq by Turkey and Iran.

Sadr said on his Twitter account that the two neighboring countries want to punish the Iraqi people “since a reformist party has won the election”.

“I will not let you punish the Iraqis by cutting off the rivers only because the reformers have succeeded (in the election),” Sadr wrote on his Twitter account.Meanwhile, Turkish Ambassador in Baghdad Fatih Yildiz revealed in a statement that Ankara doesn’t make such steps before consulting the subject with its neighbors. He has given Iraq a few days to address the issue of water and electricity”or should leave it to him to handle it”.

Turkey and Iran have recently dried the water flows coming into Iraq and Kurdistan Region which has resulted in creating difficulties for the government to provide public services to its people. www..mesop.de