Thirsting and starving enemy populations in order to annihilate them is a method of warfare as old as war itself.
However, this approach was believed to be relegated to the barbaric times before modern international laws intended to regulate conflicts - and above all to protect civilians - under the careful vigilance of the United Nations.
Faced with the Kurds, Turkey is showing today that this is not the case.
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She behaves as we used to behave in the past.
In his obsessive desire to do away with these Kurds he despises, Erdogan uses a terrifying and forgotten weapon that he had hitherto kept in reserve - and which most Western officials have failed to measure: 'water.
With this harmlessly worded weapon, Erdogan can quietly wage a war of attrition against Kurdish civilians, insidious, without sensationalism and without firing a single shot.
A war as silent as it is devastating in its long-term effects.
Within the carnivorous world
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