Yukhari Turkmanli is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Uchkilsa (Echmiadzin, Vagharshapat) district, and currently in the Armavir province. The provincial centre is located 15 km to the southeast of the town of Serdarabad (Armavir), next to the Boyuk Garasu River and at a height of 837 m above sea level. The village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was inhabited by 64 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 262 in 1873, 360 in 1886, 438 in 1897, 510 in 1904, 540 in 1914, 460 in 1916 and 460 Azerbaijanis in 1919. The village was attacked by Armenian armed units in spring 1919, the inhabitants were massacred or ousted from their historical and ethnic territories. The Armenians removed from the Sasun province of Türkiye were settled in the village between 1915 and 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in the territory of present-day Armenia, along with the Armenians, the village was inhabited by 11 Azerbaijanis in 1926 and eight Azerbaijanis in 1931. The Azerbaijani inhabitants were expelled from the village in the mid–1930s. At present, the village is inhabited only by Armenians.

The toponym was coined by combining the word “yukhari” denoting a distinctive feature and the ethnonym “Turkman” of the Gizilbash followed by the suffix “–li”.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 January 1935, the village was renamed “Apaga”. According to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative territory of the Armavir province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude 40°05’ N., longitude 44°15’E.