Mehmet Karpuzcu sa Univerziteta Gazikent uzvratio je da bi sve pogodnosti koje druge zemlje ostvaruju od brana u Turskoj trebale platiti te zemlje, te da voda možda nije roba, ali infrastruktura jest.
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.