Mehmet Cevat Rıfat Atilhan (1892 – 4 February 1967) was a Turkish career officer and antisemitic writer.

[2] At the beginning of World War I, he was ordered by Ahmed Cemal Pasha to be posted in the Middle Eastern front.

When Sultan Mehmed VI left his post, Damat Ferid Pasha had Atilhan arrested because of a conspiracy.

During the Turkish War of Independence, he was appointed as the commander of the fronts of Zonguldak-Bartın and its vicinity by Mustafa Kemal Pasha.

After publishing Suzy Liberman, Jewish Spy in 1935, the Turkish Army gave the order to buy 40,000 copies and distributed them amongst the officers.

[6] According to Atilhan, the Turkish volunteers managed to capture an Israeli village and later joined the Jordanian Army.

[9] He was arrested in 1952 along with Necip Fazıl Kısakürek in Malatya as responsible for the assassination attempt of Ahmet Emin Yalman.

He was influenced by antisemitic politicians like Şerif Yaçağaz and Ali Galip Yenen.