The Turkish side of the Habur border crossing point opened in 1969 , along with the international Silk Road roadway ( ) ( former , present . ) Between 2005-06 , it is modernized by the GTİ , a subsidiary of the Union of Chambers and Exchanges of Turkey . Due to the curfew in the Cizre and Silopi districts between December 2015 and , the gate was closed , until the Customs and Trade Minister of Turkey opens the border crossing . Vehicles not to be able to cross the border into Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan at that time . After the declaring of the curfew in Nusaybin on , a day after the Kızılay bomb blast , vehicles going to Iraqi Kurdistan were passed through Mardin , Midyat , İdil and Cizre . With the reopening of the main old roadway '' İpek Yolu '' ( ) , between Kızıltepe and Cizre ( ) , shortly after the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt , the vehicles rebegan to pass through this roadway as in the past
Kızılay bomb blast
March 2016 Ankara bombing
Habur, Şırnak