Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade
The Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade is an Armenian military organization in Syria and a part of the Syrian Democratic Forces. The brigade was founded in the Marziya Church in Tell Goran on 24 April 2019, the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
The brigade is named after Nubar Ozanyan, a Turkish-born Armenian Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, who was commander of TİKKO, the armed wing of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, in Syria during the 2017 battle of Raqqa, in which he was killed in action.
The brigade stated that its goals are to defend the Armenian people, language, and culture, and all peoples of Rojava from ISIL and the Turkish state, which it described as the "current representatives of the fascist Union and Progress Committee".
On 14 August 2019 the Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Brigade and the TKP-ML held a joint ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of Ozanyan's death during the battle of Raqqa, attended by representatives from multiple SDF militias and Turkish communist rebel groups.
