Atalay Filiz

Atalay Filiz
Nationality Turkey
Other names Furkan Altın
Criminal charge Murder
Capture status
 Arrested
Wanted since 2013
Details
Victims At least 3

Atalay Filiz is a Turkish serial killer suspect. He is held responsible for at least three murders, possibly for one in 2012, two in September 2013 and one in May 2016. A fugitive for more than two years, he was captured in June 2016.[1][2][3]

Early life

Atalay Filiz was born to an officer of the Turkish Air Force. His father retired from the military, and entered a career as a pilot at the Turkish Airlines.[1]

He was educated at Galatasaray High School , one of the most prominent high schools of Turkey, in Istanbul, and graduated with honors. His teachers remark that "he is so intelligent that he could survive in a jungle when left alone." In college, Filiz studied biology in the University of Paris-Sud in France. In 2010, he came back Turkey and said his family he will study for his doctorate in Ankara. However, after the allegations it is revealed that he was never registered for a doctorate degree in Ankara [2][4]

Murders

He is accused of murdering in 2013 two people, whom he knew from his time in Paris, France. On September 16, Filiz allegedly ambushed and killed Göktuğ Demirarslan, the 24-year-old son of Air vice-marshal Hasan Hüseyin Demirarslan, and his 23-year old Russian girlfriend Elena Radchikova (Russian: Елена Радчикова) with a pump action shotgun in front of the entrance of their housing estate in Eryaman, Etimesgut after secretly pursuing them two weeks long.[2][5][6] He is to said to have escaped, and was ascertained that he flew to Greece with a fake identity. To another police information, he went to Portugal.[4] To seek his location and to arrest him, an Interpol red notice was issued. It was believed that he later returned to Turkey with his fake identity.[1]

On May 27, 2016, he allegedly murdered the 40-year old Fatma Kayıkçı, a history teacher and mother of two,[5] the spouse of his boss Gani Kayıkçı.[6] He was staying under the alias Furkan Altın in the ground floor flat of the apartment building, where also the family Kayıkçı lived. She was about to leave the building to pickup her child from the school. Filiz allegedly stabbed her, put her body in a wheeled luggage in his flat, took it outside, as seen on a surveillance footage.[6] He dumped her body at the bottom of a tree in an open terrain nearby. The neighbors in the apartment building heard screams. One of her shoes and bloodstains led to Filiz' flat.[1] Police identified Furkan Altın as Atalay Filiz from the fingerprints in the crime scene.[4] The victim's body was found the next day.[4]

It is now believed that he also murdered in Paris his Russian girlfriend Olga Seregina (Russian: Ольга Серегина), who had introduced her friend Radchikova to Demirarslan during their stay in Paris. She had mysteriously vanished in 2011. An Interpol notice in the form of a yellow notice was issued at that time to locate the missing woman.[1]

Filiz was captured and arrested by police in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016 upon information of a citizen in Menderes, İzmir, western Turkey.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "İşte seri katilin odası". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  2. 1 2 3 Atam, Habip (2016-05-31). "Tuzla katilinin dehşet veren hikayesi!". Sözcü (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  3. 1 2 Şen, Banu & Taylan Yıldırım (2016-06-12). "Son dakika haberi: Atalay Filiz yakalandı, üstünden çıkanlar şoke etti!". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-06-12.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Öğretmenin katili tanıdık!". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  5. 1 2 Kızılkoyun, Fevzi (2016-05-31). "Firari komşunun kanlı geçmişi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  6. 1 2 3 Kızılkoyun, Fevzi (2016-05-31). "Turkish 'serial killer' returns as suspect in teacher's murder". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
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