[12] In 1973, the area around castle Qal'at Ja'bar, with the location of the tomb, was due to be flooded when the Tabqa Dam would create Lake Assad.

On 5 August 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that "The tomb of Suleyman Shah [in Syria] and the land surrounding it is our territory.

[14] On 20 March 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) threatened to attack Turkey's territory tomb site unless the Turkish troops guarding it were withdrawn within three days.

[8] On 30 September 2014, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said that ISIL militants were advancing on the Suleyman Shah tomb.

[17] An earlier report of pro-government newspaper Yeni Şafak, citing anonymous sources, had mentioned 1,100 ISIL militants surrounding the tomb.

[8] The BBC, however, stated, that after having driven ISIL out of Kobanî in January 2015, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Syrian rebels took control of several villages surrounding the tomb.

[16] Those remains were moved to a site in Syria closer to the border in an area under Turkish military control, after which the rest of the old mausoleum was demolished.

[22] After this Turkish evacuation, entitled ‘Operation Shah Euphrates’, Al Jazeera assumed the area to be "most probably" under full ISIL control.

[26] On 2 April 2018, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Fikri Işık said the tomb would be relocated to its original location in northern Syria.