Warning for drought in Turkey

Published 2022년 4월 15일

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The article highlights the importance of Turkey's Southeast Anatolia Project, also known as the GAP project, which has faced decreased enthusiasm and attention despite its potential to address current global challenges such as climate change, war, and the food crisis. Initiated 40 years ago, the project, which focuses on energy, irrigation, and agricultural production, has nearly completed its energy section but is still halfway through its intended targets. The author, Dursun Yıldız, stresses the project's significance in providing strategic natural resources (water and soil) and contributing to the region's development and food supply security. If fully commissioned, the GAP project is projected to boost Turkey's economy by 6.7 billion dollars.

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Yalcin Bayer Dursun Yıldız, Head of the Water Policies Association and Hydropolitics Academy, talked about a project that Turkey started with great enthusiasm but has been overshadowed recently. Yıldız says let's remember the "Southeast Anatolia Project". Star; “Climate change, war is at the door, the world is talking about the food crisis. We started a project called 'GAP' 40 years ago on the fertile lands where humanity made the first agricultural production. The energy section is almost completed, but we are still halfway through the project's irrigation and agricultural production targets.” Now everyone agreed, agriculture has become a strategic sector. Water is already a strategic natural resource. The soil in the GAP is very fertile and there is water. Saying that now is the time to revisit this project with the same enthusiasm, Dursun Yıldız said that one fourth of our hydroelectric energy comes from the dams there, and that the most strategic advantage of the GAP is its ...

Source: Gidatarim