ISIS seeks to break the people's will by denying them access to water supply - Turkish researcher

ISIS seeks to break the people's will by denying them access to water supply - Turkish researcher. (Taz).

The seizure of oil and gas fields, as well as water sources in Iraq and Syria by a terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS, formerly ISIL or ISIS,) indicates the presence of a serious strategy in this direction, the Turkish Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM) Water Research Programme Hydropolitics researcher Tugba Evrim Maden told Trend Nov.25.

She went on to add that the “Islamic State” seeks to control such important life objects as sources of energy, irrigation and drinking water.

She said that water can be both means of cooperation between the states and the cause of wars, which is most often seen in recent times.

"It can be noticed in the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from the Armenians’ side, but recently, the most striking example of this has become the “Islamic State,” she said.

The “Islamic State” purposefully seizes such strategic objects as dams and reservoirs, the researcher said.

“Along with the oil and gas fields, they capture the water resources as well,” Maden said. “The Tabqa and Tishrin dams were seized in Syria, as well as Fallujah, Mosul and Sudur dams in Iraq, now there are fights for the Haditha dam."

She said the IS seeks to break the people's will by denying them access to water supply.
By doing so, IS looks to subjugate people, Maden said. Read the full story here.