November 10, 1970 - Seyit Ahmet Demirci
A pattern of targeted violence against a specific profession gave this case an unusual forensic profile, with investigators eventually tracing the crimes to a single perpetrator whose victims shared an occupation rather than a neighborhood or social circle. Demirci's stated motive — childhood abuse at the hands of a furniture shop owner — shaped a fixation that persisted for years and crossed into homicide. The media epithet he earned reflects how clearly the targeting logic emerged once the killings were connected.
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Seyit Ahmet Demirci (born 10 November 1970) is a Turkish serial killer, who is dubbed "Mobilyacı katili" ("The Furniture Dealers' Killer") in the media. He was convicted of killing three different furniture dealers.
Seyit Ahmet Demirci grew up in Fatsa, Ordu Province, northern Turkey.
As a child, he worked in a furniture shop. He claimed that at the age of 11, the elderly shop owner had sexually abused him in the basement of the shop. He also claimed to have witnessed the molestation of a co-worker by the same employer in the shop basement.
He moved to Istanbul and developed hatred towards furniture dealers, particularly those who said they had some other furniture in the basement. He committed his first murder shooting Ali Osman Beldek in the neck at the Turgut Reis neighborhood of Esenler, Istanbul on 5 May 1998.
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