Security
(Voices of Iraq) - 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 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 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 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.
"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.