Mehmet Aksoy (February 1985[1] – 26 September 2017), also known as Fîraz Dağ, was a Turkish-Kurdish filmmaker and activist.

Aksoy was killed while covering the battle to retake Raqqa in Northern Syria from ISIS.

He was embedded with the People's Protection Units when ISIS fighters overran a base where he was staying on 26 September 2017.

[1][2] Aksoy's family are from the Kurdish Alevi community,[3] and were originally from the Elbistan district of Maraş (East Turkey).

[7] Aksoy did not inform his parents of his plans before travelling to Rojava (North Syria) in June 2017.