Akçakale

Akçakale is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province in Turkey. The district covers 1,038 square kilometres and had a population of 123,721 in 2022, and it is organised into 120 neighbourhoods. The town forms a divided city with Tell Abyad across the border in Syria, and the two share a border crossing, which has made Akçakale a frontier town. The town sits at the southern end of state road D.885. During the Syrian Civil War, on 3 October 2012, shells fired from Tell Abyad hit the town and killed five civilians, and in October 2014 the porous border meant that Islamic State fighters were present in the area. The district has a hot semi-arid climate of Koeppen type BSh, and its amateur football club, Akçakale Belediyespor, plays at the Akçakale ilce stadium.