A husband who butchered his nurse wife in a 25-second bloodbath after a row over money left her dead on the kitchen floor with a meat cleaver buried in her throat.

The fight exploded after 26-year-old victim Sevcan Demir Sakman confronted her partner over using her credit card to buy alcohol.

Husband Halit Can Sakman, who confessed to the killing, is facing trail for her murder next month (June) at Turkey's High Criminal Court.

Picture shows Halit Can Sakman, 26, with Sevcan Demir Sakman, 26, undated. He killed her with cleaver in Antalya, Turkey. Note: Private photo taken from local media. (Newsflash/NX)

He claimed to police that his wife had come at him with a knife before he killed her.

In a gruesome statement he told police in Antalya, Turkey: "I stabbed Sevcan in the back once with a knife from the counter.

"When she fell to the ground, I strangled her with my hands.

"Then I don't remember if it was a knife or a cleaver but I slit her throat. I don't remember after that. I woke up in the hospital."

Picture shows Sevcan Demir Sakman, 26, undated. She was killed in Antalya, Turkey. Note: Private photo taken from local media. (Newsflash/NX)

Prosecutors say Sevcan had been attacked with two bladed weapons and was found dead on 9th March with 11 deep gashes and a broken arm.

The cleaver was still buried in her throat when police arrived after worried neighbours called them because they could hear shouting.

A colleague of Sakman, who also worked as a nurse, said in a statement that Sakman had video called him after the murder and told him: "She is not breathing."

Then as Sakman panned the phone's camera around he saw Sevcan lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

Picture shows Halit Can Sakman, 26, undated. He killed his wife in Antalya, Turkey. Note: Private photo taken from local media. (Newsflash/NX)

It later emerged that Sakman, also 26, had been treated for a personality disorder and had taken four anti-depressant tablets before downing the alcohol.

The couple had been married for just two months before the brutal slaying.

(MJ Leidig/newsX)