Its part of the long ter GAP project, which was planned in the 70s already, is aimed to industrialize the border regions to Syria and Iraq.
635 large dams are operational and about as many are planned in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Anatolia_Project
I'd say nobody expected the shit to hit the fan that bad, back then if you told me that a coup attempt will happen in 7 years i would call you crazy.
In 2009 i trusted Turkish justice and was calling ergenekon victims putchists, thats how much the things have changed in all those years.
One of your countrymen himself was bragging about how much you guys dislike Turks and make fun of Ottomans in your TV shows and such this very forum.
Isnt your media constantly calling Turks evil and make propaganda against us? Why do you get angry when i mention it?
One muslim country was the birth place of Turkeys arch enemy and other muslim countries were helping them, while a Christian and a Jewish country helped us to get their leader.
So yeah as you can see religion is an abstract construct and Turkey has gained very little with the recent religious...
Turkey has undoubtedly a big sphere of Influence / Softpower stretching from Balkan all the way to Pakistan.
You can see that just by the volume of Turkish media consumed in those countries including yours.
Sry dude but i wont even compare it to politically isolated Iran which has some proxies...
Seeing that the Russians take the Pantsir with them is also debunking the claim that haftars forces were operating them.
So the excuse of wrong operation is also debunked.
Sputnik Turkey is always picking up the controversial topics, add its own flavors and and makes propaganda against Turkey. Its about Time Russia gets a taste of its own medicine.