Gazikent University's Mehmet Karpuzcu countered that any benefits Turkey's dams provide for other countries should be paid for by those countries, and that while water may not be a commodity, infrastructure is.
Mehmet Karpuzcu sa Sveučilišta Gazikent uzvratio je tvrdnjom kako dobrobit koju turske brane omogućuju drugim zemljama trebaju platiti te zemlje; voda možda nije roba, ali infrastruktura jest.