Atatürk Dam is Turkey’s largest. Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia ...
The country is ranked fifth on a list of countries ... The fall in water levels at the lake, which is fed by the Euphrates River, has led to acute shortages of drinking water for the local ...