Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baykar Makina (creator of Bayraktar UAVs) Ozdemir Bayraktar has died, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted, haqqin.az reports.

The Turkish Armed Forces used the first Baykar UAVs during an operation against the Kurds in 2005-09.

Bayraktar TB2 strike UAVs have been used in Libya and Syria, as well as during the aggression that Azerbaijan and Turkey launched against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Armenia.