Some 1,250 trucks transferring Turkish goods have been
blocked from entering Russia and are stranded at border posts, a Turkish
shipping association says.
"Russia has not given
permission to Turkish trucks for entry or transit passage for the past
four days," Fatih Sener, the managing director of Turkey's International
Shippers Association (UND),
told Reuters on Monday.
"Apart
from the trucks waiting at the border posts, it doesn't allow those
that have entered the country... to discharge their load at the customs.
This is the case for Romanian, Bulgarian, Kazakh and Moldovan trucks
carrying Turkish goods," Sener said.
Tensions have been running
high between Ankara and Moscow following the recent shooting down of a
Russian bomber by a Turkish warplane.
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