Middle East Conflict Essay

The Conflict of Land in the Middle East Ever since 1300 CE, land has been an issue in the Middle East because of recurring fighting. The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire caused conflict because of the separation of religious and ethnic groups. Correspondingly, Israel has been fighting for their rights against Palestinians. Altogether, the Middle East has experienced a very disastrous history full of fights and war. The Middle East, a highly diverse and controversial region, comprises of a history of devastating fights for land among the Ottoman Empire, the Jews and the Arabs, and various other fractions for reasons varying from territorial resources to cultural beliefs. The Ottoman, a ferocious empire, began in 1300 CE and continued to rise for many centuries until their downfall in the 1600’s. To protect themselves from overpowering empires such as the Mongols, Islamic Turkish Tribes in Asia Minor formed the Ottoman Empire. Because it was a major Muslim rival, the Ottomans gained many followers, spreading its …show more content…
Within the last century, two major conflicts have sparked. The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê or more commonly known as Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK are a group of Kurds who seek to have an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. The PKK, formed in the 1970s and had been fighting ever since, killed over 40,000 innocent citizens just for land. Land is also a conflict throughout the Middle East because of the scarcity of water. The Middle East has limited water resources, thus compelling countries to make use out of their only water sources unconsciously affecting those downstream. For example, Turkey has many water resources, but placed a dam on the Euphrates and Tigris River affecting Iraq’s main water source. Now Turkey controls when water will flow from those rivers further downstream into Iraq no matter how desperate Iraq is for water at that