Turkey bade ceremonial welcome to the first passenger train arriving to Turkish Mardin province from Iraqi city of Mosul.

According to CNNTurk, Mardin governor met the train in person and maintained that rail traffic will strengthen the social-economic relations between Turkey and Iraq.

Head of Iraqi branch in Mosul thanked for hearty welcome and the train departed to Haziantep (Ayntap).

Before the Armenian Genocide in 1915 authorities of Young Turks sent thousands of Armenians to build this ill-fated railway and killed of them right at the spot.

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