Baghdad - Iraq accused its neighbour Turkey yesterday of threatening the flow of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers by building dams and urged Ankara to reach a water-sharing accord.
"Turkey monopolises the flow of waters of the Tigris and Euphrates as dictated by its own interest at the expense of Iraq's and Syria's interest," the ruling Baath party newspaper al-Thawra said.
It said Iraq's concerns about the waters of the two rivers were raised by an Iraqi delegation currently in Ankara attending an international conference on waters opened by the Turkish President, Mr Suleyman Demirel, on Tuesday.
