The Habur border crossing was shut to all vehicles

”This blockage will be overcome,” he said. Local traders in Turkey’s southeast expressed puzzlement and frustration at the move, which they said could stifle trade with northern Iraq, which recently restarted following a shut-down in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War.
”The border is closed. If it stays that way then we could have even worse times than in the Gulf crisis,” said Adnan Elci, chairman of the chamber of industry in the border town of Cizre.
Around 700 cars and trucks make the crossing between southeast Turkey and Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq every day.