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
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2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown
Alparslan Çelik