Railways line between Iraq, Turkey re-opened
Iraq-Turkey, Economics, 5/7/2001

An Iraqi source on Saturday in Baghdad said that the railway line between Turkey and Iraq which has been suspended since 1981 was re-opened from the Turkish city of Mardin through the Syrian city of al-Qamishli, the two Iraqi cities of Rabeya and al-Mousel until it entered Baghdad after midnight.

The Iraqi official explained that the current trip carried a delegation of 22 persons including the director general of the Turkish railways and several journalists and Turkish businessmen and traders.

The Turkish official added that the two administrations of the Iraqi and Turkish railways agreed during the talks which were held in Ankara by the beginning of this year to start trips between the two countries through Syria to transport commodities and persons.

For his part, the director general of the eastern region investment for the Syrian railways Qadri al-Qasem al-Hammoud said in a statement to SANA upon the train arrived in al-Hassake on Saturday that the general establishment of the Syrian railways and sides concerned at the province of al-Hassake provided facilities for the passage of the Turkish passenger train which is driven by a Syrian locomotive as a start to open the line and as a beginning for the transport operations between Turkey, Iraq and Syria in the context of talks recently held between the railways establishments and companies.

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