Two new customs gates come to Iraq border

Two new customs gates are coming to the Iraqi border: Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazıcı said that in addition to the Habur Border Gate, two new gates will be opened.
Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazıcı stated that the meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Northern Iraq Regional Kurdish President Mesut Barzani in Diyarbakir has agreed that the Aktepe and Ovaköy gates are opened immediately, in addition to the Habur Border Gate.
Yazıcı, who made a written statement about the new border gates to be opened to Iraq, noted that during the negotiations with the Iraqi Central Government, Aktepe-Bacuka Land Border Gate and Habur-3 Bridge were reached. Printers, Turkey A delegation invited to Iraq by the last week of November or the first week of December talks in Ankara and said he made the decision to sign the memorandum of understanding with the protocol.
The first one of the border gates on the agenda of the opening Aktepe (Silopi / Sirnak) -Bacuka (Zaho / Dohuk) indicating that the Black Border Gate Printer, Iraq and Turkish delegations, Aktepe / Bacuka Border Gate technical meetings to come together at different times reported to come together. İpekyolu Customs and Trade Regional Directorate of Aktepe Customs Directorate reminded that the establishment of the Printer, the location of the reconciliation on the location of the bridge and the Habur River will be built on the coordinated location determination process was completed in 2011 reminded. The printer, the border gate between the facilities of these facilities will begin construction of parts of the road up to the border announced.
- Ovaköy-Karavala Land and Railway Border gates
Turkey-Iraq High-Level Strategic Cooperation Committee of any other decision taken at the meeting of the Turkey-Iraq railway project route and due to be completed around the site Ovaköy'de is made of road and rail border crossings for small cars and trains expresses printer for this purpose, Ali Riza Efendi the establishment of the Customs Directorate, on the location of the land border gates that made recommendations to the Iraqi side, the Turkey-Iraq border railway railways of the two countries now on the point that he said had largely deal.
Customs services, stating that the railroad would be taken at the last station on the Turkey side of the printer, was reported to border crossing facilities after making the precise location detection gate will start to work on the construction of the section up to the border of the road link between these facilities.
- Habur-3 Bridge
Stating that the new bridge is planned to be built in the area between the two existing bridges, Yazıcı reminded that the coordinates of the bridge legs were determined in the 2011 joint study. Reminding that the protocol was initialed by delegation heads at the 2011rd Joint Working Group Meeting held in Ankara in November 3, Yazıcı said:
“The signature authorization decision was taken on behalf of our country for the signature of the protocol. In order to solve the problem of river bed narrowing, which is also a problem for the existing bridges in the region where the new bridge will be built, bed cleaning works were carried out by our country, a similar study was carried out on the Iraqi side. After the signing of the protocol, the tender and construction works will be carried out by the General Directorate of Highways, and the cost will be shared equally between our country and Iraq. ”
- "The new border gates Middle East, the Caucasus and Turkey will make significant contributions to trade"
The annual $ 12 billion trade that made the Iraq-Turkey between due to 1,6 million vehicles experiencing traffic Habur Border Gate of the insufficient to cover the trade in addition to the door Aktepe and Ovaköy'de signed the agreement in 2009 for the opening of the door, but reminiscent of the emergence approval of the management of Iraq printer, in July Turkey 'ate from Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that attended the Turkey-Iraq High-Level Strategic Cooperation Committee in addition to the Habur meeting Aktepe and Ovaköy'de Border Customs opened the door for negotiations between the parties on matters do.
Yazıcı, stating that the issue was handled and that the two gates were agreed to open urgently during the meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Northern Iraq Regional Kurdish Administration President Mesut Barzani in Diyarbakır, 2 new border crossings and 3 new customs crossings in Ovaköy and Aktepe are planned. He stated that the point will be created. The printer Gülyaz 1, Hakkari, will begin soon on two, including the opening of construction works of the planned customs crossing point, these two new border crossings of the Middle East, the Caucasus and would make an important contribution to the trade of countries in terms of Turkey, he said.