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Cihan Yılmaz

Turkish association football player (born 1983)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ832172 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cihan Yılmaz (born 15 June 1983) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Born in Turkey, Yılmaz began his career in Germany. He played for several German clubs, including SC Westfalia Herne, Rot Weiss Ahlen, SC Preußen Münster, Berlin AK 07, and SV Wehen Wiesbaden. He was signed by Karşıyaka in 2007, and later moved to Sivasspor in July 2009.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cihan Yılmaz” as turkish association football player (born 1983). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2007, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-06-15. The account is most persuasive where Cihan, Yılmaz and Turkish can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as turkish association football player (born 1983). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q832172. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2007 and 2009.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cihan Yılmaz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.