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BORDER TROUBLES * Turkey - Shortage of transit passes to Russia starts a black market
A shortage of commercial transit licenses for Turkish long-haul trucks headed to the burgeoning market of Russia has met head-on with an unforeseen flaw in a six-year-old system of permit issuance, the result being a skyrocketing black market in passes
İİstanbul,Turkey -Turkish Daily News, by SMAİL YANMAZ -May 11, 2007: -- ... The net result for Turkish truckers hoping to head north in the face of demand growing by 30 percent a year is a resort to a new and informal black market for unused passes with the starting price $1,750... Many Turkish TIR's beginning their journeys without passes have now begun forming long lines at the Russian borders, leaving them effectively stranded in Bulgaria, Moldava and Ukraine. The only ticket out is to resort to the thriving trade for anyone with a pass who is willing to part with it... (Photos by JAMIE FRANCIS/St. Petersburg Times -Right- A prayer platform with the words "Please keep clean" scratched into the concrete provides respite at Habur gate -Left- A few hundred feet inside southeastern Turkey, roadside tea shops are set up at Habur gate, where trucks wait to cross the border)
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