Turkish prosecutor seeks aggravated life imprisonment for 4 suspects in Narin Güran murder case

Osman Çaklı / DUVAR

A Diyarbakır prosecutor has prepared an indictment into the 8-year-old Narin Güran's murder case and sought aggravated life imprisonments for four suspects over “intentional killing,” former Diyarbakır Bar Association head Nahit Eren announced on Dec. 6. 

Accordingly, the suspects include Narin Güran’s mother Yüksel Güran, uncle Salim Güran, brother Enes Güran, and Nevzat Bahtiyar, a neighbor who hid the girl’s dead body. 

Narin Güran went missing on Aug. 21 in the Tavşantepe village of the southeastern Diyarbakır province’s Bağlar district, and her dead body was found 19 days later in a nearby stream.

Bahtiyar previously confessed that he put the dead body of the murdered girl in a stream inside a sack upon the instruction of the girl’s uncle and the village head Salim Güran for 200,000 liras. 

He also claimed that the uncle Salim Güran strangled Narin Güran to death because she saw that he and the girl’s mother Yüksel Güran were having sex.

In the indictment, the prosecutor noted that the girl’s mother Yüksel Güran “did not act with the instinct of a mother and did not act as if her daughter had disappeared from the beginning of the incident, and that she acted as if she accepted the death of her daughter Narin, it was determined that the defendant Yüksel Güran had the will to participate in the murder of Narin together with the other defendants.”

Moreover, the girl’s brother Enes Güran “gave contradictory statements about the time of (the girl’s) disappearance, and it was clearly seen in the presence of the court that he acted in this way out of fear of being a participant in the act, and therefore, together with the other defendants, he had the will to participate in the murder of Narin.”

For the DNA traces of the girl in the car of the uncle Salim Güran, the indictment said, “Nevzat Bahtiyar said that Narin Güran was lying on the ground and a liquid came out of her mouth strongly suggests that the DNA profile may have been obtained from the biological sample and that it was found in the vehicle as a result of the infection of the defendant Salim Güran. For these reasons, (it has been determined) that the defendant was involved in the act of murder and tried to obscure the evidence, and therefore, together with the other defendants, he had the will to participate in the murder of Narin.”

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