Nubar Ozanyan | |
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Other name(s) | Fermun Çırak (birth name) Orhan Bakırcıyan (nom de guerre) |
Born | 1956 Yozgat, Turkey |
Died | Raqqa, Syria | August 14, 2017 (aged 61)
Buried | Al-Malikiyah (Derîk), Syria |
Allegiance | TKP/ML |
Service | IFB |
Years of service | 1980s–2017[1] |
Rank | TİKKO commander of operations in Rojava |
Battles / wars | Maoist 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.