Akçakale

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Akçakale (Arabic تل اأبيض ) is a town and a district of the Turkish province of Şanlıurfa.

Akçakale is located about 49 km southeast of the provincial capital of Şanlıurfa on the Syrian border. The city is a shared place and was originally called Tell Abyad or Tilabyad. Situated in Syria part is still called Tall Abyad.

The city has 24,890 and the county 82 093 inhabitants (as at end December 2009). The population consists mainly of Arabs. In the district of cotton and wheat are grown preferred.

Incident

On the night of 3 to October 4, 2012 proposed in Akçakale in the wake of civil war in Syria, according to the Turkish government three grenades. These were fired from the Syrian army and had four children and their mother and another woman were killed and 13 other people, including some police officers injured. In response, the Turkish armed forces fired on a military base near Tall Abyad and demanded the United Nations Security Council to investigate the incidents.