Nubar Ozanyan

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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
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Syrian civil war

Nubar Ozanyan (

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during the Battle of Raqqa
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Biography

Ozanyan's birth name was Fermun Çırak. He later adopted a great number of pseudonyms,[3][4][5][6] of which "Nubar Ozanyan" and "Orhan Bakırcıyan" were the best known.[2][7]

He was born into a poor

Israel Defence Forces during the First Intifada.[9][8][10] Ozanyan received military training from local militants in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley in 1990.[7] Between 1991–92, he fought in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War against Azerbaijan.[8][1] He returned to Turkey's Tunceli Province in 1992 and thereafter participated in the local Maoist insurgency.[7] At this time, Ozanyan began to rise in the ranks of the TKP/ML, and became an important organizer, ideologist, recruiter, trainer and frontline commander for the party.[8]

In 2013, he trained TİKKO fighters in

third phase.[8][7] Ozanyan returned to Tunceli Province for some time in late 2016 or early 2017, but eventually resumed his participation in the IFB.[8] By 2017, he was the leading TİKKO commander for operations in Syria.[8][11]

Ozanyan took part in the Battle for Raqqa, ISIL's self-proclaimed capital, during which he was killed in combat on 14 August 2017.[8][11] He was 61.[12] A memorial was held for him by the IFB and YPG/YPJ in Raqqa,[11] and he was buried with full military honors in al-Malikiyah (Derîk) on 28 August. Thousands attended his funeral.[13] His death was lamented by the TKP/ML, the Istanbul-based Armenian Nor Zartonk movement,[14][2] [10] the THKP-C/MLSPB,[15] the PFLP,[9] the MLPD,[16] and the IRPGF.[8][7]

Personal life

Ozanyan could read, write and speak Turkish, Armenian and Russian and translated several leftist treatises.[7]

Legacy

On 24 April 2019, a group of Syrian Armenians who were affiliated with TKP/ML and the SDF announced the formation of the Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Armenian communist killed in Syria". News.am. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "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.
  3. ^ "Serdar Can'dan "Armenak Bakırcıyan" kitabına dair değerlendirme". ozgurgelecek18 (in Turkish). 23 August 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  4. ^ TKP/M-L Örgütlenme Komitesi. ""PARTİMİZİN SEÇKİN ÜYESİ, TİKKO ROJAVA KOMUTANI NUBAR OZANYAN (FERMUN ÇIRAK) YOLDAŞ ÖLÜMSÜZDÜR!" (2017.08.16)". tkpml.com. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Ermeni Yoldaşları Nubar Ozanyan'ı andı".
  6. ^ Kırdalyan, Kristin. "Fermun Çırak anısına!". Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h "TKP/ML Örgütlenme Komitesi'nden Nubar Ozanyan'a ilişkin açıklama [Explanation of Nubar Ozanyan from the TKP / ML Organizing Committee]". Partizan (in Turkish). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "TKP/ML-TİKKO Commander in Rojava falls a martyr". ANF News. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  9. ^ a b "PFLP salutes the martyr Comrade Nubar Ozanyan of TKP/ML". PFLP. 17 August 2017. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Armenian Guerrilla Fighter Nubar Ozanyan Killed in Rojava while Fighting ISIS". Armenian Weekly. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  11. ^ a b c "Memorial ceremony for Armenian revolutionary martyred in Raqqa". ANF News. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  12. ^ "Nubar Ozanyan'ı Anıyoruz". Partizan (in Turkish). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  13. ^ "TKP/ML-TİKKO Commander Ozanyan laid to rest in Derîk". ANF News. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Ethnic Armenian Nubar Ozanyan killed while fighting against IS in Syria". Armenpress. 17 August 2017.
  15. ^ "THKP-C /MLSPB: O bizlerin devrimci yaşamının idolüdür [THKP-C / MLSPB: He is the idol of our revolutionary life]". Partizan (in Turkish). 18 August 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Nubar Ozanyan im Kampf gegen IS gefallen [Nubar Ozanyan was killed in battle against IS]". Rote Fahne (in German). 17 August 2017. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  17. ^ "Armenians form brigade in Northern and Eastern Syria". ANF News. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Nubar Ozanyan Armenian Brigade declared". ANF News. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.