In the "favoring the criminal" case regarding the murder of Narin Güran, the retrial continues after the Regional Court of Justice found the local court decision unlawful. The hearing where the detained defendants and children in the judicial process were tried was postponed to 27 November to resolve the missing issues.
After the Diyarbakır Regional Court of Justice 7th Criminal Chamber found the local court's verdict, which gave prison sentences ranging from 1 year 3 months to 3 years 6 months for the crime of "favoring the criminal" regarding the murder of 8-year-old Narin Güran, to be unlawful, the trial of 12 defendants who were not detained and 3 children in the judicial process continued.
At the closed hearing at the Diyarbakır 17th Criminal Court of First Instance, 7 defendants, 2 children in the judicial process and their lawyers were present.
In his opinion, the public prosecutor expressed his opinion that the defendants should continue in their current situation and that the missing issues in the file should be eliminated.
At the hearing, 7 defendants and 2 children in the judicial process made their defense.
The lawyers of the defendants and the 3 children in the judicial process demanded that their clients be acquitted of the crime charged.
The court postponed the hearing to November 27 in order to make the defense of the other defendants and the child in the judicial process and to eliminate the missing issues.
Indictment and trial process
In the indictment prepared for the murder of Narin Güran, who disappeared on August 21, 2024 in the Tavşantepe District of the Central Bağlar district and whose lifeless body was found in the iftutmaz Creek on September 8, 2024, a prison sentence of 6 months to 5 years is requested for 12 people and 3 children in the judicial process for the crime of "favoring the criminal".
At the verdict hearing held on 30 May 2025 at the Diyarbakır 17th Criminal Court of First Instance, Birsen, Fuat and Maşallah Güran, who were tried for the crime of "favoring the criminal", were sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, Salim Güran's worker Mehmet Selim Atasoy, Mehmet Şevket Kaya and Muhammed Kaya were sentenced to 3 years, 3 years and 6 months to Gift Güran, Şeyma Kaya, İbrahim Halil Güran, Barış Güran, Kurtuluş Güran and Ömer Faruk Güran 3 years, R.A. in the judicial process. (16) 1 year 3 months, M.G. (16) and İ.K. (17) was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in prison.
Diyarbakır Regional Court of Justice 7th Criminal Chamber found the local court's decision to be unlawful, which sentenced 12 defendants and 3 children in the judicial process to prison terms ranging from 1 year 3 months to 3 years 6 months in the Narin Güran murder case.
The detained defendants, mother Yüksel, brother Enes and uncle Salim Güran, who were tried for the murder of Narin Güran, were sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment for "intentional killing of a child in the event of participation", and Nevzat Bahtiyar was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison for "destroying, concealing or altering criminal evidence". Diyarbakır Regional Court of Justice 1st Criminal Chamber found the sentence of the first instance court to the defendants to be lawful.
The 1st Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals approved the aggravated life imprisonment sentence given to mother Yüksel, brother Enes and uncle Salim Güran in the Narin Güran murder case, and decided to overturn the 4 years and 6 months prison sentence given to Nevzat Bahtiyar.
Bahtiyar, who was retried after the 1st Criminal Chamber overturned the sentence of 4 years and 6 months in prison for the crime of "destroying, concealing or altering criminal evidence" on the grounds that it was considered within the scope of "aiding the crime of qualified premeditated murder", was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the crime of "aiding the crime of qualified premeditated murder".
