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Jun 26, 2014

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Turkey / Syria

* Turkey pays steep price now for letting jihadis into Syria

(Photo, by ANDREA BRUCE / THE NEW YORK TIMES - Truck drivers wait in a long line to cross the border into Iraq from Turkey, though some trucking companies have stopped transporting goods into Iraq since 31 truckers were kidnapped in Mosul) Habur Border Gate, Turkey -The New York Times (USA), by Ben Hubbard and Ceylan Yeginsu -June 25, 2014: -- In normal times, hauling 50,000 pounds of frozen chicken into Iraq is a routine job for Turfan Aydin, a Turkish trucker who has been working the route for years. But the cross-border trade has suddenly all but halted, locked up by the insurgent offensive in Iraq and the kidnapping of 80 Turkish citizens... Once this border was wide open, as Turkey allowed rebel groups of any stripe easy access to the battlefields in Syria in an effort to topple President Bashar Assad. But that created fertile ground in Syria for the development of the Sunni militant group that launched a blitzkrieg in Iraq this month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)... The kidnappings have terrified communities that rely on cross-border trade. Doruklu, a village of 1,300 people where some residents still live in mud-brick homes and most men become truckers as soon as they reach adulthood, counts four men among the captive truckers...

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