Years of service 2014-2016 | Rank Second-in-command | |
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Allegiance Alperen Ocakları
Syrian Turkmen Brigades Unit Turkmen Coastal Division Battles/wars Syrian civil war
Latakia offensive (2015–2016)
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown | ||
Alparslan Çelik is a Turkish Islamist-Nationalist Alperen Ocakları member. In 2014 he joined the Syrian Turkmen Brigades and fought against Syrian Army. On 24 November, after Turkey shot down a Russian bomber jet, he allegedly killed the Russian pilot Oleg Peshkov. Çelik was detained in İzmir, Turkey on 31 March 2016. All charges against him were dropped on 9 May 2016. However the investigation was subsequently reopened in which he denied killing the pilot, instead insisting that he was killed by another group.
His father Ramazan Çelik was the Mayor of Keban for the Nationalist Movement Party
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