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President Tayyip Erdogan has said he would seek the most severe
punishment for those responsible for the death of Narin Guran,
whose body was found in a village near Diyarbakir, the largest
city in southeast Turkey.
Prosecutors at a Diyarbakir court charged the girl's mother and
brother of participating in the murder, while six people
including an uncle and cousins were charged with destroying
evidence. Another uncle was earlier charged with murder.
Political parties and women's groups have held protests in
various cities across Turkey to demand justice for Guran, whose
murder triggered an outpouring of shock on social media,
especially because of the number of relatives allegedly involved
in her killing.
Guran went missing on Aug. 21 from her village, some 10 km (6
miles) south of Diyarbakir. Her body was found in a sack hidden
under rocks in a nearby stream on Sept 8.
It was not clear how she was killed, but media reports said the
autopsy revealed she had lesions on her neck.
(Reporting by Daren Butler; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
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