Upon finishing his military training, Orsetti joined a military formation organised by the &lt;a href="Communist%20Party%20of%20Turkey/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist"&gt;Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist&lt;/a&gt; and then fought during the Battle of Afrin against the Turkish Army and Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army's jihadists with other internationalists as part of TİKKO and AFFA (Anti-Fascist Forces in Afrin).