İsmail Selen (1931, Bolu – 23 May 1991, Ankara) was a retired general in the Turkish Gendarmerie.
DHKP/C member Necmi Suma was sentenced to 12 years for his murder.
[1] In 2011 Col. Arif Doğan claimed that the Turkish Gendarmerie's Cem Ersever had ordered Selen's assassination.
[2] Selen graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1954 and the Turkish Military College in 1970.
He was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1980 and to Major-General in 1984, becoming Chief of Staff of the Gendarmerie General Command in 1985.