The Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Battalion in Rojava held a commemoration event in memory of Şehid Nubar Ozanyan. Ozanyan was a Communist Armenian revolutionary who fell in combat fighting ISIS.
He joined TKP/ML in Turkey in the 80’s and joined their military wing, TIKKO, in the late 80s. In 1988 he traveled to Palestine and fought with the PFLP against the Zionist regime during the first Intifada. He later spent considerable time in the Bekaa Valley training with other revolutionaries.
In 1991–92, he fought in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War against Azerbaijan. He returned to Turkey’s Tunceli Province in 1992 and thereafter participated in the local Maoist insurgency. 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.
In 2015 he was integral in the establishment of the International Freedom Battalion in Rojava, becoming one of the top commanders in the organzation. TIKKO, under his influence, was instrumental in the anarchist formation in Rojava — the IRPGF — operating with a degree of political autonomy. He died fighting in Raqqa.
The battalion named in his honor commemorated him at the Cultural Center in Rojava.
