KurdistanObserver.com
Checkpoints Now at Syrian, Turkish Borders
Zakho, Apr 27, (VOI) - A number of checkpoints were set up on Iraq's Kurdistan's
borders with Turkey and Syria to watch Iraqi borders there, a source in
Kurdistan's border guards in Duhok said on Friday.
"A total of eight checkpoints have been
established on Iraq's Kurdistan's borders with Syria and Turkey," chief of
border guards in Duhok Colonel Hussein Tamur told the independent news agency
Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The checkpoints were set up along the border
line from Beshabour region near to the Syrian borders in the west of Duhok to
Zakho district near to the Turkish borders in the farthest north," he added.
"The checkpoints' main function is to watch and
monitor borders continuously," the source also said.
"More checkpoints will be established in border areas in the future," he noted.
The border line with Syria and Turkey has been
a scene to smugglers who guide Iraqis from different parts of the country to
cross the borders illegally to Syria and Turkey and then to Europe.
Two weeks ago, Turkish authorities extradited
737 Iraqis to Kurdish security authorities after arresting them during an
inspection campaign to hotels and offices in different parts in Turkey.
Most of the extradited people sneaked into
Turkish territory by illegal ways.
Duhok is the third province within Iraq's Kurdistan region. It is in the far
north of Iraq with borders with Turkey and Syria.
