Nubar Ozanyan

Nubar Ozanyan
Other name(s)Fermun Çırak (birth name)
Orhan Bakırcıyan (nom de guerre)
Born1956
Yozgat, Turkey
Died(2017-08-14)August 14, 2017 (aged 61)
Raqqa, Syria
Buried
Al-Malikiyah (Derîk), Syria
Allegiance TKP/ML
Service / branch IFB
Years of service1980s–2017[1]
RankTİKKO commander of operations in Rojava
Battles / warsMaoist insurgency in Turkey
First Intifada
Lebanese Civil War
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Syrian civil war

Nubar Ozanyan (Armenian: Նուպար Օզանեան,[2] born Fermun Çırak, 1956–2017) was a Turkish-born Armenian radical communist revolutionary, who served as a commander in the militant Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP/ML). Fighting in several conflicts for the group, he eventually died in combat against the Islamic State during the Battle of Raqqa.

  1. ^ "Armenian communist killed in Syria". News.am. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ^ "ԹԻՔՔՈ-ի հայ անդամը զոհուած է Տահէշի դէմ մղուող մարտերուն [Armenian member of TİKKO killed in fight against ISIS]". Arevelk (in Armenian). Aleppo, Syria. 17 August 2017.