8 people, including mother, brother, uncle, arrested in murdered 8-year-old girl Narin Güran’s case

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A Diyarbakır court on Sept. 13 arrested eight suspects in the investigation regarding the murdered 8-year-old girl Narin Güran, the Demirören News Agency reported.

Güran on Aug. 21 went missing in Diyarbakır’s Tavşantepe village. Her dead body was found found on Sept. 8 in a stream near her village.

24 people in total were previously detained within the investigation. Her uncle and the village head (“mukhtar”) Salim Güran was previously arrested.

The court arrested eight suspects, including Güran’s mother Yüksel Güran (44), brother Enes Güran (18), another uncle Fuat Güran (42), cousin Muhammed Kaya, other relatives and Salim Güran’s worker. 

The total number of arrested people reached 10, with uncle Salim Güran, and neighbor Nevzat Bahtiyar previously arrested.

Bahtiyar confessed that he put the dead body of the murdered 8-year-old girl Narin Güran in a stream inside a sack upon the instruction of the girl’s uncle and the village head Salim Güran for 200,000 liras ($5,873). Accordingly, he received the dead body from the uncle.

Narin Güran’s father Arif Güran said in his testimony that he had no problem with Salim Güran previously, but “I want the guilty ones to be punished, whether it is my brother or my wife.”

When asked if he had a suspicion that his wife was cheating on him with his brother Salim Güran, the father Güran said, “There can be absolutely nothing between them.”

Previously, AKP MP Galip Ensarioğlu said that the girl “may have been killed by her uncle Salim Güran because she saw something she ‘shouldn't’ have seen.”

Meanwhile, journalist Ferit Demir reported the phone conversation between the arrested suspect Uncle Salim Güran, and his worker Ramazan Atasoy, that was filed in the investigation. Accordingly, Uncle Güran asked his worker, “Ramazan, is she dead?”