Akçakale
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| Province (il) : | Şanlıurfa | |||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 43 ' N , 38 ° 57' E | |||
| Residents : | 24,890 (2009) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 414 | |||
| Postal code : | 63 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 63 | |||
| Structure and administration (status: 2009) | ||||
| Mayor : | Abdulhekim Ayhan ( SP ) | |||
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| Akçakale County | ||||
| Residents : | 82,093 (2009) | |||
| Surface: | 691 km² | |||
| Population density : | 119 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Şefik Aygöl | |||
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Akçakale ( Arabic تل اأبيض Tal Abyaḍ ) is a city and a district in the Turkish province of Şanlıurfa .
Akçakale is located about 49 km southeast of the provincial capital Şanlıurfa on the Syrian border. The city is a divided place and was originally called Tell Abyad or Tilabyad. The part in Syria is still called Tall Abyad .
The city has 24,890 and the district 82,093 inhabitants (as of December 2009). The population consists mainly of Arabs . In the district, cotton and wheat are preferred.
incident
On the night of October 3rd and 4th, 2012, three shells struck Akçakale in the course of the civil war in Syria, according to the Turkish government. These were fired by the Syrian army, killing four children and their mother and one other woman, and injuring 13 other people, including some police officers. In response, Turkish forces shot at a military base near Tall Abyad and called on the United Nations Security Council to investigate the incident.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed April 4, 2010
- ↑ Sevan Nişanyan : Adini unutan Ülke. Türkiye'de Adı Değiştirilen Yerler Sözlüğü. Istanbul 2010, p. 325
- ↑ Apparently Syrian soldiers killed
