Ninety Years of Montreux: Turkey, the Straits and the Balance of the Black Sea
A 1936 convention still governs one of the world’s most strategic waterways. How Montreux turns geography into diplomatic leverage for Ankara.
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Upstream, Downstream: The Politics of Water in the Tigris–Euphrates Basin
Turkey, Syria and Iraq share two great rivers but no comprehensive agreement on how to divide them. Why hydro-politics in Mesopotamia is about power as much as scarcity.