Agatha Christie, considered the queen of the crime novel genre, wrote 66 novels and 14 short story collections during her 86-year life. Her works have been translated into every language.
Agatha Christie’s books have sold more than two billion copies…
At one point in her life, she visited our region and even spent time in our country, so traces of us can be found in some of her novels.
The reason I’m remembering her these days is because of what I’ve read in the newspapers and seen on the screens about Narin, whose body was found in Diyarbakır…
The descriptions of the case vaguely remind me of Christie’s novel Murder on the Orient Express, which has been adapted for the silver screen many times, the last in 2017.
The protagonist of the novel, Hercule Poirot, travels from Aleppo to Istanbul, but he needs to get to London. He manages to secure a spot on the Orient Express at the last minute.
The train gets stuck in harsh winter conditions. The 15 passengers from different countries traveling in the same compartment are at a loss for what to do. That night, one of them is found dead with 12 stab wounds.
Poirot, who is skilled at solving the most difficult crimes, takes on the investigation since the police are not present at the crime scene. In the end, through the backgrounds of the remaining 14 passengers, he uncovers how the murder on the train was committed.
Crime enthusiasts have likely already read this classic, and those who haven’t probably watched the film, so I don’t mind revealing the ending: All 12 passengers – who had each been harmed by the victim, a man who had committed many wrongs in the past, including murder – conspired to kill him. Each of the 12 stab wounds came from a different passenger.
You’ve probably guessed by now why this novel comes to mind. Narin, whose murder has deeply wounded all of us, is believed to have been killed by a large group. Even though some were later released, there are still 24 people who could be re-arrested at any moment.
Murder is the most heinous crime in the world because it means taking a life that God has given. As we know from the third-page news in the newspapers and from the TV programs that showcase problems ending in murder, a crime like this is usually committed by a single person targeting a single victim.
Like in Murder on the Orient Express, a murder carried out by a dozen people is almost unheard of. It would be more accurate to call such a crime committed by a group “lynching.”
According to reports about Narin, multiple people are responsible for her death. According to one scenario, one person killed the little girl but hired another – even paid them – to dispose of the body…
Other family members either witnessed the murder or, even if they learned about it later, chose to cover it up…
Don’t these details sound strange to you?
Why didn’t the murderer dispose of or hide the body themselves? Why involve someone else?
It doesn’t make sense to involve someone else who could expose the crime, which could otherwise remain hidden.
The person who learned of the crime could use it to blackmail the murderer for money for the rest of their life.
It’s a nonsensical act.
It also doesn’t seem plausible that the whole village was involved in the murder.
The victim was a little girl. An innocent child. Is the whole village heartless? How could they blindly witness such cruelty?
People across the country are being drawn into the case, with nearly every detail contradicting the next.
Calls for the death penalty are becoming louder.
“Hang them,” they say.
But who will be hanged?
If the goal is to bring back the death penalty, this heinous crime could be used as a pretext.
If the goal is to turn the entire country into a TV program set, out of jealousy over Müge Anlı always ranking at the top of the ratings, and to make people forget about other problems, then yes, this murder could serve that purpose too.
In Agatha Christie’s novel, the victim was a criminal machine responsible for the death of a child. The “train jury” easily justified their shared guilt.
In Diyarbakır, Narin, who was killed at the age of eight, was allegedly murdered by her family members.
If this is true, we have every reason to lament: “What kind of society have we become?”
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[The translation of the article is by ChatGPT.]
