Defiant Kurds shrug off risk of trade war after independence vote


A worker carries a bag of potatoes from the truck coming from Turkey, in the town of Zakho, Iraq October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal

ZAKHO, Iraq (Reuters) - More than three weeks after Iraq's Kurds voted for independence, it's business as usual at the bustling Ibrahim Khalil border crossing with Turkey.

Ankara has threatened to impose economic sanctions on Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region to deter moves towards independence, but hundreds of trucks still cross the border each day -- some with supplies for Kurdish areas, others en route to Baghdad.

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