Uluslararası Sınıraşan Suların Doktrinleri Bağlamında Nil Nehri Havzasının Bitmeyen Tartışmaları

Abstract

Considering the conflicting interests of states over their shared basin-wide transboundary water resources, various basin states follow different international legal theories of transboundary watercourses. This paper focuses on the theoretical doctrine of the latter concerning the practices of the Nile River Basin. In an attempt to correlate the theories of International Transboundary Watercourse vis-à-vis the case of the Nile River basin, this paper addresses whether the Nile riparian countries follow a particular transboundary watercourse theories or not? Whether the upstream and/or downstream countries follow the same or different doctrinal theory or not? Whether the theories they follow have practical significance in showing the origin of where the Nile controversy lies or not? In addressing the aforementioned issues, this paper finally shows the origin of where the Nile River Basin controversies emanates from — as their conflicting and uncompromising attitudes over their international theoretical standing point, lead their practical basin-wide negotiations to a never-ending Nile controversy.