Süleyman Aktaş

Süleyman Aktaş is a Turkish serial killer. Nicknamed "The Nailing Killer", he is responsible for five murders.

Süleyman Aktaş was employed as a worker at the Turkish Electricity Company in Denizli, Turkey.^[1][2] He was severely injured by high voltage during works at a 31.5 kV electric power distribution line.^[1][2]

After this accident, he killed police superintendent Nuri Keskin in Antalya in 1986.^[1][2][3][4] He was arrested, and was placed in Manisa Psychiatric Hospital after the court ruled his mental disorder.^[1][2] Aktaş stayed four and a half years in the hospital before his release.^[1] He returned to his hometown of Çambaşı village in Bozkurt, Denizli.^[1]

In 1994, Süleyman Aktaş killed four elderly neighbors by strangling three years after he came back to his hometown.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He nailed the couples Ayşe (65) and İsmail Güneş (66), and Rukiye (77) and Ramazan Kocatepe (78) in the eyes and heads.^[1][2][3][5] In his testimony after his arrest, he told that "He can not stand nails. He wants to nail people in the head."^[1][2][5] Aktaş was nicknamed "The Nailing Killer".^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He was hospitalized as diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.^[1] He escaped from the hospital, but was apprehended in the coach terminal.^[1]

In 2007, Aktaş was seen publicly for the first time after twelve years in a rehabiliation show program of the hospital.^[3][4] At noon of May 28, 2008, he assaulted his roommate, the child killer Ömer Yılmaz, and wounded him by hitting him in the head with a rock in the exercise yard of the hospital, where he had been kept in a special department for 13 years.^[1][6] Yılmaz underwent a head surgery in a nearby state hospital, and survived the attack.^[1][6]

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