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A Gunman Opens Fire Near a High School in Turkey, at Least 4 Wounded, Reports Say – WTOP News
- On Tuesday, a gunman opened fire outside the Inci Uzmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Turgutlu, Manisa at 8:00 a.m., wounding eight people, including students, before police detained the suspect.
- This shooting occurred one day after Education Minister Yusuf Tekin and Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci signed security protocols for the 2026-2027 academic year, following deadly April attacks that had prompted tighter gun controls.
- The April incidents included a 14-year-old who killed nine students and a teacher in Kahramanmaras while wounding 13 others, sparking national outrage and government pledges to restrict gun ownership.
- Separately, a former student wounded 16 people at a Sanliurfa high school on Monday before taking his own life, marking the second consecutive day of campus violence in Turkey.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged stricter gun controls and deployed 31,000 school grounds supervisors, stating that perpetrators aim to "terrorise society" in attacks around the world.
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Eight people were injured today in a shooting accident near a high school in Manisa, western Turkey.
·Syrian Arab Republic (the)
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One teenager opened fire and injured 11 students in front of a secondary school in western Turkey before being arrested by the police, authorities reported.
·Warsaw, Poland
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A minor has been arrested in Turkey after a shooting outside a high school in the west of the country that injured 11 students, two of them seriously, Justice Minister Akin Gürlek said. The motive for the attack is not yet known, and authorities have launched an investigation.
·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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