Mosul’s merchants keep trading as battle against Isis rages
As soon as Iraqi forces recaptured the eastern outskirts of Mosul from Isis last year, traders in the nearby Kurdistan region received a flood of phone calls — shopkeepers, desperate for supplies, knew exactly where their next economic lifeline would be. “Before this Isis mess, I’d never done business with those people [in Mosul]. But […]Erika Solomon writes for Financial Times:
As soon as Iraqi forces recaptured the eastern outskirts of Mosul from Isis last year, traders in the nearby Kurdistan region received a flood of phone calls — shopkeepers, desperate for supplies, knew exactly where their next economic lifeline would be.
“Before this Isis mess, I’d never done business with those people [in Mosul]. But as soon as the Iraqi army opened the road and gave traders here a chance, they were all going,” says Lazkin Mohammed, a shopkeeper in Kalak. “We were suddenly doing business with Mosul.”
