The trial for the murder of 8-year-old Narin Güran, found dead on 8 September in a river near the village of Tavşantepe after being strangled (according to the autopsy results), will start next November after the completion of the investigation launched by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in Diyarbakır, which calls for the 4 main defendants – including her mother, brother and uncle – to be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Turkish media reported that the first session of the trial for the brutal crime will take place on 7 November at 9:00 a.m., with the prosecution requesting for the 4 main defendants – the girl’s mother Yüksel Güran, her older brother Enes Güran, her uncle Salim Güran, and a neighbour and Salim’s employee Nevzat Bahtiyar – a life sentence for the crime of ‘premeditated murder of a child in complicity’.
Recently, Diyarbakır Criminal Court No. 8 accepted the prosecution’s indictment highlighting the existence of ‘strong evidence’ supporting the charges against the defendants, for whom the court decreed that they should be remanded in custody due to the seriousness of the offences with which they are charged and the high risk of fleeing.
The court has also ordered ‘compulsory attendance’ for a total of 22 persons as witnesses or defendants in the proceedings. Among these persons is Narin’s father, Arif Güran, who is attending not as a defendant but as a plaintiff. Also attending the trial as plaintiffs are the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services and the Diyarbakır Bar Association.
More than a dozen people – mostly relatives of the girl – are accused of having participated or collaborated in the murder, either by direct involvement or by helping to remove evidence or hindering the investigation. While the prosecution has been able to establish the participation of the main defendants in Narin’s murder, to date it remains unclear why the girl was killed with the involvement of her immediate family, who also collaborated in trying to cover up the horrific crime.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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