What Have I Written About the Narin Güran Murder Coverage?
Unfortunately the Narin Güran murder still has not been clarified; it continues to be debated and discussed, and the court rulings are being criticised.
From the very first days the murder was reflected in the media, I tried to draw attention to the journalistic errors made in news reports and commentary. Sadly, the journalistic errors in the reporting and commentary on this case persist. For example, Nevzat Bahtiyar — retried and given a harsher sentence — is still being described as a “confessor” by some outlets such as Show TV and Nefes. Yet even the judiciary changed his classification of offence; this time it convicted Nevzat Bahtiyar of “aiding aggravated intentional homicide”.
Seeing that the errors continue, I decided to gather in a single file the links to my columns, social-media posts and the TV programmes I have appeared on regarding the Narin Güran murder. I hope my criticism will contribute to correcting the errors in the coverage of the Narin Güran case and to avoiding similar errors in comparable cases in the future.
I had published my first column, titled “The shame of harvesting ratings from pain”, on 18 September 2024. With the long piece titled “What was written, what was said about the Narin Güran family?”, in which I listed the full media flow on the case as of 14 August 2025, and the piece titled “12 media errors in the Narin murder that influenced the judiciary”, in which I concretised with examples the fundamental errors of the media, I closed my writing on this subject.
The links to all of my posts, columns and videos on the news and commentary about the Narin Güran murder are listed below:
The shame of harvesting ratings from pain[1] (18 September 2024)
The newspaper that asked its readers who the killer was[2] (25 September 2024)
{“…brought to the agenda that it might be implying”}[3] (16 October 2024)
The right to a fair trial[4] (13 November 2024)
I hope we journalists have not harmed justice.[5] (28 December 2024)
The judges of the Narin and Newborn cases[6] (11 December 2024)
{Raw reports in the “Narin murder”}[7] (22 January 2025)
Faruk Bildirici on the media’s failure[8] (Tele 1 / 2 June 2025)
{Discussions on the Narin Güran murder reached a new dimension: “What if the Güran family is not guilty?”}[9] (HalkTV / 3 June 2025)
What if the Güran family really is innocent?[10] (4 June 2025)
What was written, what was said about the Narin Güran family?[11] (14 August 2025)
12 media errors in the Narin murder that influenced the judiciary[12] (14 August 2025)
(Faruk BİLDİRİCİ / 15 May 2026)
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