The term Barak is popularly thought to mean some kind of a dog, regularly connoting an insult towards the tribe.

[1] According to the 19th-century Turkish-French dictionary compiled by the Ottoman-Armenian linguist Artin Hindoğlu, barak meant "dog", specifically barbet.

Later, Kadıoğlu Yusuf Pasha offered Barak Turkmens a pardon from the state in exchange of a regular tax of one sheep.

The tribe accepted and gave 84 thousand sheep to the Ottoman-sided dedes, and after a long-lasting conflict, they also repelled the Arabs east and south of the area.

While Feriz Bey returned west to inform his tribe of the Shah's approval, Dedemoğlu and his Abdal followers stayed in Iran.

[10] Following a meeting between Abbas Pasha and Feriz Bey's son, Mehmed Bey, groups of Baraks were resettled in the vicinity of Urfa and İzmir,[11] and officials were assigned to tax the rest of the tribe that had recently started to farm and abandon their nomadic practices.

[13] A Barak Turkmen family who were at odds with the rest of the tribe passed the river and visited the Reşwan leader, who welcomed them in his tent.

Barak Turkmens took this as an issue of honor and ignited a new blood feud[14] on top of the ongoing clash with the Kurds east of the Euphrates.

[17] This last migration marked the tribe's full adaptation to a settled life, as fertile plateaus that were more suitable for grazing were left in the eastern side of the river.

[18] In 1855, Carl Ritter mentioned that northwards from Sajur River lived settled Turkomans of the Barak tribe.

In Barak Turkmen villages, mosques used to be uncommon to find, although they held importance for Sunni communities as places of gathering.

By tradition, every Barak Turkmen household used to regularly donate sheep and goats for Qurban to these two dedes.

An orange headscarf known as "Ahmediye" worn by women as a part of their traditional folk costume is an iconic piece that has become a symbol of the Baraks.

[25][26][27] Ezogelin soup is a popular dish from the national cuisine of Turkey that was borrowed from the Barak Turkmens.

[30] Most folk dances of the Baraks involve holding hands and are accompanied by davul, zurna, and zambır.

It is often claimed that most dances of Baraks include symbols alluding to their forced migration from Central Anatolia.

[31] Barak Turkmens used to practice berdel marriages, and they call it değişik in their local dialect of Turkish.

Their settlements are mostly near bodies of water, stretching from the Euphrates coast to Sajur River, and a significant portion of this tribe is in Syria.