Precursor to Prophecy | Turkey Cuts Water to the Euphrates

According to alakhbar, a Lebanese news source with ties to Hezbollah, Turkey has quit pumping water into the Euphrates River which has its headwaters in Eastern Turkey. Alakhbar claims that they are doing this in order to interfere in the Syrian civil war.

Another possibility is brought forward by the Middle East Monitor. Controlling the water may be less about Syria and more about Iraq. Turkey has been smuggling cheap oil from Iraqi Kurdistan. They imply in the article that controlling the water is a way to keep Iraq quiet on the smuggling of oil. Control of water is very important in the Middle East. Mr. Erdogan may be trying to control the oil by controlling the water. To paraphrase Henry Kissinger; Control oil and you control nations. Control food (or water) and you control people. Mr. Erdogans sights may be set higher than just Turkey. He may seek to control the entire Middle East.

This brings to mind the verses in Revelation that say that the Euphrates will dry up in preparation for the army of the kings of the east just prior to the battle at Armageddon.

And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.   Revelation 16:12-14

A new Turkish aggression against Syria: Ankara suspends pumping Euphrates’ water

The Turkish government recently cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water crisis. Al-Akhbar found out that the water level in Lake Assad has dropped by about six meters, leaving millions of Syrians without drinking water.

Two weeks ago, the Turkish government once again intervened in the Syrian crisis. This time was different from anything it had attempted before and the repercussions of which may bring unprecedented catastrophes onto both Iraq and Syria.

Violating international norms, the Turkish government recently cut off the water supply of the Euphrates River completely. In fact, Ankara began to gradually reduce pumping Euphrates water about a month and half ago, then cut if off completely two weeks ago, according to information received by Al-Akhbar.

A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity revealed that water levels in the Lake Assad (a man-made water reservoir on the Euphrates) recently dropped by six meters from its normal levels (which means losing millions of cubic meters of water). The source warned that “a further drop of one additional meter would put the dam out of service.”

“We should cut off or reduce the water output of the dam, until the original problem regarding the blockage of the water supply is fixed,” the source explained.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controlling the region the dam is located in did not suspend the water output. Employees of the General Institution of the Euphrates Dam are running the lake under the supervision of al-Qaeda linked ISIS, but they don’t have the authority to take serious decisions, such as reducing the water output. In addition, such a step is a mere attempt to ease the situation, and it will lose its efficacy if the water supply isn’t restored to the dam by Turkey.

The tragic repercussions of the new Turkish assault began to reveal themselves when water levels dropped in al-Khafsa in Aleppo’s eastern countryside (where a water pumping station from Lake Assad is located to pump water through water channels to Aleppo and its countryside).
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