Turkman Bareh


Turkman Bareh, alternatively spelled Barih, is a town in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. About northeast of the city of Aleppo and about south of Syria's border with Turkey, it is administratively part of Nahiya Akhtarin of Azaz District. Nearby localities include Dabiq to the west and Akhtarin to the south. In the 2004 census, Turkman Bareh had a population of 1,537 with a dominative Syrian Turkmen majority.
The town has been in close proximity to sustained fighting in the Syrian civil war.