The road south from Cizre towards Silopi was some of the worst road surface that I travelled on in my journey. It was a 25 - 30mph road at best, with lorries able to drive much faster thundering past. Just as I was becoming truly exasperated the road changed and I was sudddenly trabelling on a pefectly surfaced dead straight motorway. At the end of this straigh the signs for the border point to the right. Anyone taking that turn at speed would be come to a sticky end. I saw no other signs that the road was blockled off; just these concrete blocks closing the road.
Miles of lorries line up in Turkey on the approach road to the Ibrahim Khalil Border Crossing, on 01 Dec 2019. Around a thousand cars and 1500 trucks a day cross into Kurdistan.
The crowd was getting a little out hand at the border crossing point out of Turkey and in to Iraq. Nothing unfriendly, just growing noise, more and more jostling. The way to get kids to line up these days, and behave? Shout 'Selfie' and wait for them to dash into shot. 01 Dec 2019, on the Turkish side of the Iraqi Border Crossing Point.
