İlhan Cihaner (born 23 February 1968,[1]Kağızman), is a Turkishleftist politician and a former prosecutor. He's a parliamentary deputy for the Republican People's Party (CHP) since 2011. He was the Chief Public Prosecutor of Erzincan from 2007; he resigned in 2011 in order to stand for election.[2][3] He is a suspect in the Ergenekon trials.[4][5][6] He is a columnist for the soL newspaper.
Career
Cihaner, then a prosecutor in İdil (Şırnak Province), was the first prosecutor to point at the Turkish Gendarmerie's JİTEM, in an indictment of 1997. He held the defendants including civil servants, confessors and others responsible for killings, bombings and "disappearances". Defendant No. 1 was Ahmet Cem Ersever and defendant No. 2 was Arif Doğan.[7]
He was appointed Chief Public Prosecutor of Erzincan in 2007.[8] In this position he ordered an investigation of the İsmailağa and Fettullah Gülen religious communities.[9] Some months later, Taraf published a plan entitled "Action Plan against Religious Radicalism", an alleged plan to discredit religious communities and the AKP government by planting weapons. A Justice Ministry investigation followed, and the İsmailağa case was transferred to another prosecutor, Osman Şanal, on the grounds that there were allegations that İsmailağa was a terrorist group. Osman Sanal wire tapped the Chief Public Prosecutor, Ilhan Cihaner[10] The same year, (November 2010) Osman Sanal litigated newspaper reporter İlhan Taşçı about his book on İsmailağa religious society.[11] Osman Sanal was arrested and charged as a member of Fettulah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) who were attempted coup in 2016.[12]
Charges
Cihaner was arrested in February 2010 as part of the Ergenekon trials investigation, and charged with membership of “Ergenekon” organization.[13] Court ordered release of Ilhan Cihaner during his trial in August 2010.[14] He was appointed a public prosecutor in Adana in November 2010.[15]
Cihaner was found not guilty in conspiracy cases which were conducted by the members of Gulenist's prosecutors[16] who were fled from Turkey.[17]
^Şık, Ahmet (2009-03-24). "Fırat'ın ötesi: ÖHD, ÖKK, JİTEM, Ergenekon…". Habervesaire (in Turkish). Retrieved 2010-05-22. 1997 yılında müdahil olduğum ve JİTEM görevlilerinin suçlandığı bir davada İdil Savcısı İlhan Cihaner'in fezlekesinde bunu adı konmuştur. Savcının ciddi saptamaları vardır. Savcı fezlekesinde kamu görevlileri, itirafçılar ve başka bazı kişilerin de içinde olduğu ve adam öldürme, bombalama, gözaltında kaybetme gibi suçları işleyen ülke genelinde örgütlü bir suç örgütü var diyor. Bu fezlekenin sanıklarının 1. sırasında yer alan isim Ahmet Cem Ersever'dir ki JİTEM'in kurucusu olduğunu herkes biliyor. Sonra 2. sıradaki sanık, şimdi Ergenekon soruşturmasının tutukluları arasında yer alan ve yine JİTEM'in kurucularından olan Arif Doğan'dır.
