It guarantees a yearly average release of 16 BCM [at a minimum annual average of 500 m3/sl from the Euphrates at the Syrian-Turkish border." Turkey and Syria signed 52 agreements in a Strategic Cooperation Council meeting on energy cooperation, transportation, trade and security. Negotiating mechanisms between Iraq and Turkey were created or revived and in 2009 a new water protocol was signed along with many other protocols on trade and security.