Faruk Bildirici compiles in a single file his columns, posts and TV appearances on the journalistic errors in the coverage of the Narin Güran murder.
After the Court of Cassation’s affirmation, the file reopens through DEM Party’s retrial calls from the parliamentary rostrum, a request for retrial bearing 128 signatures…
The aggravated life sentences handed down by the Diyarbakır Regional Court of Justice have been carried to the Court of Cassation. From the dissenting opinion of Appellate…
How the system was blinded during the 19-day search for Narin Güran, who disappeared in Tavşantepe village near Diyarbakır on 21 August 2024: from the gendarmerie locking…
“They spat into the mother’s mouth during interrogation. The family was unable to convey their case — there is a language barrier, an Eastern reticence. I, too, believe…
The file concerning Narin Güran, who disappeared in the village of Tavşantepe, Diyarbakır, on 21 August 2024, is far from being a closed investigation. The possibility of an…
The Narin case is not merely a criminal file; it is also an indicator of society’s relationship with truth. When representations take the place of truth, justice is not only…
128 intellectuals, writers, journalists, academics, lawyers, and politicians issued a joint statement criticizing serious procedural irregularities in the Narin Güran case…
128 writers, journalists, academics, politicians, and human rights defenders issued a declaration calling on the Constitutional Court to revisit the doubts surrounding the…
128 intellectuals, writers, journalists, artists, lawyers, and politicians issued a joint statement criticizing serious procedural irregularities in the Narin Güran case and…
In August 2024, 8-year-old Narin Güran vanished. While the nation mourned, the focus shifted from the predator to an easier target: her mother, Yüksel Güran. She became the…
What followed the murder of Narin Güran was no different from a modern stoning ritual. The target was once again a woman: Yüksel Güran, who was lynched by an entire society…
In the wake of the Court of Cassation’s 29 December decision affirming the verdict in the Narin Güran case, an essay arguing that Yüksel Güran is one of the starkest…
An analysis questioning Turkish society’s collective hysteria around the Narin Güran case from the perspective of Eddie Adams’s iconic Saigon photograph and John Berger’s…
In the fourth part of the Narin Güran case, Ali Duran Topuz examines in detail how disinformation spread, how fake social media accounts steered public opinion, and how the…
This article analyzes how the developments of 31 August 2024, social media posts, and fabricated news shaped the investigation in the Narin Güran case, offering an extensive…
An analysis examining justice, media, and judiciary relations in the Narin Güran case through the lens of silence, the right to remain silent, and the presumption of…
An analysis that explores the pursuit of justice at the intersection of media, politics, and the judiciary — through the lenses of misinformation, prejudice, and conscience.
DEM Party MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu visited the Güran family in Tavşantepe village, examined the crime scene and case file, and called for justice for Narin Güran and her…
A critical analysis of how initial investigative errors and media-driven prejudices shaped the Narin Güran case; examining how a criminal investigation turned into what the…
An analysis of Nevzat Bahtiyar’s three changing statements as the last suspect in the Narin Güran investigation, the assumption that “she saw something she shouldn’t have…
The critical impasses and wrong turns in the Narin Güran investigation: a detailed analysis of how the initial assumption about the time of the incident set off a chain of…
The murder of Narin Güran became the subject of one of the most mediatized cases of recent years. The trial began and ended, and three members of the family were sentenced…
A chronological table of news reports and commentary published in the media from Narin Güran’s disappearance on 21 August 2024 to the opening days of the trial.
Comparative analysis of the other reports (excluding the narrowed-base report) and legal assessment with the assistance of ChatGPT.
A scientific, impartial and fair comparison of three different reports submitted to the court in the Narin Güran murder case, with the help of ChatGPT.
The media and public opinion immediately removed him from the murder case by saying, ‘Nevzat would never dare to do such a thing.’
The effort to produce answers for the broad masses who reflected their unrestrained anger at the political power onto Narin’s family also prevented seeing the chain of…
Through René Girard’s scapegoat theory and Émile Durkheim’s concepts of punishment and solidarity, a sociological analysis of public reactions surrounding the Narin Güran…
Just like the mainstream media that could not get enough of spreading lies and sensational information about what happened to Narin, the media we call alternative also…
The fire of the police-thriller excitement sparked by the incident has burned out. Who cares about Tavşantepe Village, about a peasant family there? The journalists, the TV…
Not so long ago, only five months back, the murder of Narin Güran was one of the topics most dwelled upon by newspapers, news sites, and television channels. Not only…
A concept called “narrowed base” or “narrow area base” has entered our lives through the Narin Güran murder case. With this method, it is claimed that the locations of…
In fact, it was not only a child named Narin that was lost there, but also a village called Tavşantepe… I wanted to share this, thinking that perhaps you too might wish to…
Reframing the Narin Güran murder trial as “Turkey’s Dreyfus affair”; through a caricatured dialogue, exposing the absurdity of the legal disaster, the stance of the…
If there were a courageous Arthur Miller in Turkey these days, he would write about another trial resembling the witch trials in Salem 400 years ago: the Narin Case that…
I am now a dead woman, a corpse, at the bottom of a well. It has been long since I took my last breath, my heart has long stopped, yet no one but my vile murderer knows what…
The 25 minutes between Narin Güran’s last appearance on the school camera at 15:15 and Nevzat Bahtiyar’s red car arriving at the riverbed at 15:40 — minus the seven-minute…
In the Narin murder case, what does it even mean to talk for hours on end, saying the most far-fetched things and then closing with “Here we are just discussing scenarios…
Almost a month has passed since 8-year-old Narin Güran was killed on 21 August, yet we still do not know who killed her or why. A piece questioning whether all these…
The death of Narin Güran has resurfaced the issue of how the media approaches women and child murders. While some newspapers used expressions such as “She became an angel”…
The Columbus discovery story is entirely a fabrication; in the 1490s there was no sensible person who believed the Earth was flat as a tray. Through this striking example…
