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Checkpoints to watch Kurdistan's borders
with Turkey, Syria
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April
28, 2007
Zakho, Kurdistan region (iraq), -- A number
of checkpoints were set up on Iraq's Kurdistan's
borders with Turkey and Syria to watch Iraqi Kurdish
borders there, a source in border guards in
Kurdistan Duhuk 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 Duhuk Colonel
Hussein Tamur said.
"The checkpoints were set up along the border line
from Beshabour region near to the Syrian borders in
the west of Duhuk 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.
Duhuk is the third province within Iraq's Kurdistan
region. It is in the far north of Iraq with borders
with Turkey and Syria.
VOI
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