30 kilometer truck queue at the Bulgarian border: 'It is not clear how long we will wait'

Trucks carrying Türkiye's export products to European countries formed a 30-kilometer truck queue at the Hamzabeyli Border Gate, which opens from Edirne to Bulgaria.

Truck drivers waited for hours in the queue that formed due to the Bulgarian side's failure to respond to the traffic.

'IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW LONG WE WILL WAIT'

Truck driver Sait Özkan, who said that he entered the queue a day ago, said:

"We have been here since yesterday, we are in the queue. We are currently in the queue at the 20th kilometer. We have been wandering in the queues for 2 days. Neither the Bulgarian side is working nor the Turkish side is working. So we are being disgraced here. It is not clear how long we will wait. But 2 days, but 3 days. There are still 20 kilometers to the door. If they work, we can make it in 2 shifts, otherwise we will not be able to catch up in this life. You ask the Bulgarian, the Bulgarian does not let this Turk. You ask the Turk, the Bulgarian says the Turk does not let go. "What can we do? We've been in trouble. We don't have a toilet on the road. Let's see where we will eat next. We've been on the road for 2 days. Let's see what happens next."

Explaining that illegal immigrants caused them problems, Özkan said that they secretly entered their vehicles at night. Sait Özkan said, "Are they going to tear off our seals on the roadside or cut our tarpaulin? After that, we will be guilty after entering the customs. We will make an agreement with our friends, I will go to bed at night, he will go to bed. I will get up, it will go like this. We have no other choice."

'WE WANT IT TO BE FIXED'

Truck driver Ercan Ulus, who stated that he has been waiting in the queue for 10 hours, said, "We entered the queue from 26 kilometers and now we are at 23 kilometers. It has been 9-10 hours. The Bulgarian side is also working very slowly. The only person who controls the passport is working. These events are the same at the entrance and departure, we want it to get better. We want it to get better, everything goes faster. Let's go faster, let's come faster."