Following the 13 -year civil war in Syria, the opposition forces ended the 61 -year Baath regime. With the collapse of Assad, the capital of Damascus, especially Aleppo, began to enter imported products from abroad. Many years later, the products from Turkey began to reach every point of Syria. The expansion of the trade volume between Türkiye and Syria was reflected in the border gates in Hatay. At the border gates, a vehicle capacity of approximately 2,000 was reached. Although there are problems between traders due to increasing taxes after the change of administration in Syria, vehicle queues continue to form at the border gates. The huge truck queues formed at the border gates were displayed from the air with the drone.
“Sometimes trucks are waiting for 1 week”
Stating that the trucks are sometimes waiting for 1 week due to the intensity, Yasir Yildirim said, “We expect a maximum of 3 to 4 days here. There were faster transitions in the past, but now both the Syrian refugees are entering and the trucks are forced to enter. There are 350 to 400 TIRs, sometimes there is no way to pass. “he said.
“Trade increased when the war was over”
Orhan Güngör voicing that there was no intensity during the war during the war, “We did not have a problem in the transition time and there was no such intensity. We did not have to turn it before, but now we expect 3 to 5 days. So there is a lot of density.
Cilvegözü border crossing is the density of the Friday Soft, “Here are good. Trucks are crowded but melted over time. In the past, the passage of trucks was less, but now it has multiplied,” he said.
