Kağızman
Kağızman (), formerly Kaghzvan (), is a town in Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Kağızman District.Turkish
leftist
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politician and a former prosecutor. He's a parliamentary deputy for the
Republican People's Party
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(CHP) since 2011. He was the Chief Public Prosecutor of
Erzincan
Erzincan (; ), historically Yerznka (), is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Turkish Sunni w ...
from 2007; he resigned in 2011 in order to stand for election. He is a suspect in the
Ergenekon trials
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İdil
İdil (, or ''Beth Zabday'', , ) is a city and seat of the İdil District of the Şırnak Province in Turkey. It is located in the historical region of Tur Abdin. The town had a population of 30,271 in 2021 and is composed of Kurds of the Doman ...
(
Şırnak Province
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), was the first prosecutor to point at the
Turkish Gendarmerie
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's
JİTEM
Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele or Jandarma İstihbarat Teşkilatı (abbr. ''JİTEM'' or ''JİT''; English: "Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism" or "Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization") is the intelligence department of ...
, 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
Ahmet Cem Ersever (1950 – 4 November 1993) was a commander in the Turkish Gendarmerie, and said to be one of the founders of the Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit. He was assassinated in November 1993.) (1993), ''Kürtler, PKK ve A. Öcala ...
and defendant No. 2 was
Arif Doğan
Arif Doğan (born Kırıkhan, Hatay Province, 1945 – 17 October 2014) was a commander in the Turkish Gendarmerie, and said to be one of the founders of the Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit. He was a defendant in the Ergenekon trials, and ...
.
He was appointed Chief Public Prosecutor of
Erzincan
Erzincan (; ), historically Yerznka (), is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Turkish Sunni w ...
in 2007. In this position he ordered an investigation of the
İsmailağa
İsmailağa Jamaah or İsmail Ağa Jamaah (; Ottoman Turkish: اسماعیل آغا جماعتی) is a branch of ''the :tr:Gümüşhanevî Dergâhı, Gümüşhanevî Dargah, Dergâh of Nakşibendi-Khalidiyya, Khālidī Ṭarīqah'' (List of Sufi ...
and Fettullah Gülen religious communities. Some months later, ''
Taraf
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'' 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
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, on the grounds that there were allegations that İsmailağa was a terrorist group. Osman Sanal wire tapped the Chief Public Prosecutor, Ilhan Cihaner The same year, (November 2010) Osman Sanal litigated newspaper reporter İlhan Taşçı about his book on İsmailağa religious society. Osman Sanal was arrested and charged as a member of Fettulah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) who were attempted coup in 2016.
Charges
Cihaner was arrested in February 2010 as part of the Ergenekon trials investigation, and charged with membership of “Ergenekon” organization. Court ordered release of Ilhan Cihaner during his trial in August 2010. He was appointed a public prosecutor in
Adana
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in November 2010.
Cihaner was found not guilty in conspiracy cases which were conducted by the members of Gulenist's prosecutors who were fled from Turkey.
Political views
Cihaner is self-described as a
leftist
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and
social democrat
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, while he and his caucus within the party, Us for Future ''(Gelecek için Biz)'', stand for more radical left-wing values that includes democratic and
socialist
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sentiments. He opposes
imperialism
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,
militarism
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, interventionism, and supports left-populist values such as race and gender equality, withdrawal of troops from foreign countries and
LGBT rights
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