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Alparslan Çelik
Turkish militant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alparslan Çelik (born 1982) is a Turkish Islamist Nationalist.[1] In 2014 he joined the Syrian Turkmen Brigades of the Free Syrian Army and fought against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA). On 24 November 2015, after Turkey shot down a Russian bomber jet, he allegedly killed the Russian pilot Oleg Peshkov.[2][3] Çelik was detained in İzmir, Turkey on 31 March 2016.[4] All charges against him were dropped on 9 May 2016.[5]
His father Ramazan Çelik was the Mayor of Keban for the Nationalist Movement Party[6]
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