Italian internationalist fighter, Lorenzo Orsetti, fell martyr in the fight against DAESH on 18 march 2019. 

His body was saluted by many people bidding farewell to the Italian YPG fighter who was sent back to Italy through Semalka border crossing. 

Orsetti fell martyr in the battle against DAESH mercenaries in Dêr Ez-zor on 18 March 2019 and was saluted by a military ceremony organized by YPG and internationalist fighters at Sêmalka Border Crossing. Egid Colyan from the Internationalist Battalion, sent condolences to Orsetti’s family.

Martyr Lorenzo Orsetti, Têkoşer Piling joined and fought in the Kobanê initiative, Epochal Resistance, Jazira Storm and Baxoz. He never doubt the need of defending the values ​​of the revolution and the gains achieved by the martyrs, said Colyan. 

He added that Orsetti read the philosophy of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and that he joined the Rojava Revolution to defend the oppressed peoples.

YPG commander, Hawar Dêrik, expressed his condolences to the family of martyr Orsetti and added that “without the martyrswe would never have reached this stage. Our martyrs built an equal and common life among the people living in the Northern and Eastern Syria.”