Alparslan Çelik (born 1982) is a Turkish people, Turkish Turkish–Islamic synthesis, Islamist Nationalist. 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 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown, 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.
His father Ramazan Çelik was the Mayor of Keban for the Nationalist Movement Party
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Living people
Turkish nationalists
Turkish criminals
People from Keban, Elazığ
1982 births
Turkish Islamists
Members of the Free Syrian Army
Syrian Turkmen Assembly