Turkish trucks parked in a so-called "truck graveyard" across the Iraqi border litter the landscape...

Turkish trucks parked in a so-called "truck graveyard" across the Iraqi border litter the landscape in Sirnak, an impoverished province in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast March 28, 2003. Before authorities shut down the U.N. sanctions-busting trade two years ago, some 50,000 trucks barrelled down the highway, the site of the ancient Silk Road trade route, loaded with diesel purchased from Iraqi Kurds. Former truck drivers said fears the conflict could spill across the border have further added to uncertainty about the future of the local economy, already suffering from the closure of the border gate.