The basis of the dispute over the territory of Iskenderun and the amount of water flowing through the Euphrates River, which flows from Turkey, in the aftermath of the First World War gave France the territory of Alexandretta to Turkey on the grounds that most of the population of the Turks, and aimed France thus ensuring Turkey's position beside them as a prelude to the Second World War, worsened after the establishment of the Ataturk Dam enormous on the Euphrates River and reduce Syria's share of water.
The continued tension between the two countries for many years without armed clashes where busy Syria Arab-Israeli conflict and the crisis in Lebanon, but Syria has provided strong protests about the Turkish cross-border practices and reduce water across the Euphrates River.
التسميات
Border problems