Son of Nevzat Bahtiyar, who buried Narin, speaks out: 'I will not call that person 'father'!'

A secret witness has spoken in the investigation into the murder of 8-year-old Narin Güran, who was searched for for 19 days in the Bağlar district of Diyarbakır and whose lifeless body was found in the Eğertutmaz Stream.

'I PARTICIPATED IN THE SEARCH EFFORTS FOR NARIN'

Nevzat Bahtiyar, whose identity was revealed, had made the following confessions:

“Salim Güran flashed his lights at me while I was driving, and I stopped. He showed me something wrapped in a blanket on the front seat of his car and said, ‘You will get rid of this.’ I approached what he was showing. I saw it was a motionless human. I was shocked, I hesitated. Salim Güran told me, ‘Think of your family, I will give you 200 thousand TL.’ The village headman asked me if I had a sack in my car. I brought a sack from my trunk. We both took the child wrapped in the blanket and put her in the sack. I put the sack in my car, then the headman pointed to the stream. I went to the edge of the stream with my car. I looked for a rope to tie the mouth of the sack. Then I untied the string of the bag that was in the sack and started to tie the mouth of the sack. When I arrived home, there was activity in the village. My own mother and wife had also gone out to search for Narin Güran. I prayed at home, and then, without even eating, I participated in the search efforts for Narin.”

Ferhat Bahtiyar, the son of Nevzat Bahtiyar, who confessed to burying Narin, spoke to Çiğdem Yılmaz from Milliyet.

'I WILL NOT CALL THAT PERSON 'FATHER''

Bahtiyar said the following:

“Until now, we never suspected a single action of my father. My father participated in the searches; he searched for Narin for days along with the family. We are in shock; we don't know what to say. At home, there was never any conversation among us about Narin because we all, as a family, accompanied the searches. Everyone in my family searched for Narin for days, asking, ‘Where is this girl, what happened?’ That is why we didn't have the opportunity to talk to my father. Nothing crossed our minds about anyone; we were searching just like everyone else. People thought she had been kidnapped. I don't want to believe that my father did such a thing, but if he did, I have nothing more to say. From this moment on, I will not call that person 'father'. We are six siblings, and we don't want to believe that the one who did this is our father. The village has about 100 households. Narin's family was also farming. We never heard of a suicide incident; if such a thing had happened, we would have heard.”