DIRECTIONS IN TURKEY TO IRAQ
My friend inside Iraq e-mailed this messsage:

"I've checked about the situation
with Iraq-Turkish border- it's open. So you could go from
Istanbul to Urfa of Duyabakkir from there take a bus to
Silope and from Silope take a shared taxi to the IRaqi
border. But I think that using the press card is not very
good idea, it is better to say that you are working for
some American company and now is going to Baghdad for work."

I am going to be very careful at the Iraq / Turkey border.
I will sit on the border for at least 10 days and feel out the situation.
Making sure what the noise I hear and what people are saying.
Andy