Turkish killer given aggravated life sentences over killing Russian woman

A court in Istanbul ordered on March 9 two times aggravated life-term sentences for Atalay Filiz, a Turkish “serial killer” who became widely known after committing a series of murders, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Filiz, 30, accused of murdering three people, including a Russian national, was sentenced on charges of “committing deliberate murder.”

Filiz is accused of murdering in 2013 two people. 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.

On May 27, 2016, he allegedly murdered the 40-year old Fatma Kayıkçı, a history teacher.

It is now believed that he also murdered in Paris his Russian girlfriend Olga Seregina. She had mysteriously vanished in 2011.

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