Turkish man arrested for killing girlfriend in supermarket in jealous rage

ANKARA

Canoğul Y.

A man in Turkey's Ankara has been arrested for repeatedly stabbing and killing his girlfriend in a supermarket.

The man, identified as Canoğul Y., entered the store in the Kurtuluş neighborhood on the evening of Dec. 13 and started to talk with his cashier girlfriend Gülseren K.

According to multiple employees of the supermarket who witnessed the murder, the couple started to argue after a while and the man stabbed the woman more than 40 times.

The suspect, who was arrested, confessed to the killing in his police testimony.

"I stabbed her because I was jealous," he reportedly said.