The brigade is named after Nubar Ozanyan, a Turkish-born Armenian Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, who was commander of TİKKO, the armed wing of the &lt;a href="Communist%20Party%20of%20Turkey/Marxist-Leninist"&gt;Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist&lt;/a&gt; (TKP-ML), in Syria during the 2017 battle of Raqqa, in which he was killed in action.