Azaz is a city in northwest Syria, roughly 20 miles north-northwest of Aleppo. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Azaz had a population of 31,623 in the 2004 census. As of 2015, its inhabitants were almost entirely Sunni Muslims, mostly Arabs but also some Kurds and Turkmen.
Azaz
Azaz, Syrian Civil War 2012
Syrian Turkmen are Syrian citizens of Turkish origin who mainly trace their roots to Anatolia. Turkish-speaking Syrian Turkmen make up the third largest ethnic group in the country, after the Arabs and Kurds respectively.
A Mamluk from Aleppo.
Syria came under Ottoman rule once Selim I conquered the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt in 1516–17.
Subhi Barakat, of Turkish origin, was the first President of Syria.
Of Turkish origin, Khalil Mardam Bey was the composer of the Syrian National Anthem.