Within the last century, two major conflicts have sparked. The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê or more commonly known as Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK are a group of Kurds who seek to have an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. The PKK, formed in the 1970s and had been fighting ever since, killed over 40,000 innocent citizens just for land. Land is also a conflict throughout the Middle East because of the scarcity of water. The Middle East has limited water resources, thus compelling countries to make use out of their only water sources unconsciously affecting those downstream. For example, Turkey has many water resources, but placed a dam on the Euphrates and Tigris River affecting Iraq’s main water source. Now Turkey controls when water will flow from those rivers further downstream into Iraq no matter how desperate Iraq is for water at that
Within the last century, two major conflicts have sparked. The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê or more commonly known as Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK are a group of Kurds who seek to have an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. The PKK, formed in the 1970s and had been fighting ever since, killed over 40,000 innocent citizens just for land. Land is also a conflict throughout the Middle East because of the scarcity of water. The Middle East has limited water resources, thus compelling countries to make use out of their only water sources unconsciously affecting those downstream. For example, Turkey has many water resources, but placed a dam on the Euphrates and Tigris River affecting Iraq’s main water source. Now Turkey controls when water will flow from those rivers further downstream into Iraq no matter how desperate Iraq is for water at that