Urkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan or ibn Yulugh was a Turkish general of the Abbasid Caliphate and governor of Tarsus and of the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (al-thughur al-Shamiya) in the years 873/4–878.
In addition, he neglected to adequately provision the crucial border fortress of Loulon, causing its garrison to threaten to surrender it to the Byzantines.
Thereupon the Tarsians gathered 5,000 gold dinars for the garrison, but Urkhuz embezzled the money by pretending to deliver it in person to Loulon.
[1][2] As a result, Urkhuz was dismissed from his governorship, and was posted to a border fortress near Adana.
In late December 878, however, a Byzantine army, 30,000 strong according to al-Tabari, invaded the area.