Habur, Şırnak

Habur, Şırnak
Border crossing
Country  Turkey
Province Şırnak/Mardin (before 1990)
District Silopi
Founded by  Turkey

Habur is the name of the border crossing point at the Turkish side of the Turkey-Iraq border. In ancient times, especially since the opening of the 15 July Martyrs Bridge, on October 30, 1973, trucks coming from Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, East Germany, rarely Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece), with freight targeting Iraq and Kuwait, and the other Gulf countries in the Mid-East, ranging from foods to cars such as the West Germany Mercedes-Benz, were passed through this border checkpoint.

Overview

The Turkish side of the Habur border crossing point opened in 1969, along with the international Silk Road roadway (Turkish: İpek Yolu) (former , present .) Between 2005-06, it is modernized by the GTİ, a subsidiary of the Union of Chambers and Exchanges of Turkey. Due to the curfew in the Cizre and Silopi districts between December 2015 and January 4, 2016, the gate was closed, until the Customs and Trade Minister of Turkey opens the border crossing. Vehicles not to be able to cross the border into Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan at that time. After the declaring of the curfew in Nusaybin on March 14, 2016, a day after the Kızılay bomb blast, vehicles going to Iraqi Kurdistan were passed through Mardin, Midyat, İdil and Cizre. With the reopening of the main old roadway İpek Yolu (English: Silk Road), between Kızıltepe and Cizre (D-400 ), shortly after the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, the vehicles rebegan to pass through this roadway as in the past.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.