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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Once again a firearms attack has occurred near a school in Turkey. In the West Turkish city of Manisa, a youth suddenly opened fire on the way to school. According to the Minister of Justice, at least eleven people were injured.
A man opened fire in front of a vocational high school on Tuesday in western Turkey, causing at least 11 injuries, two of which were seriously injured, before being arrested, according to the authorities, the third such tragedy in the country since April.
With a gun, a youth approaches a school in the west of Turkey - then shots are fired. Several people are injured, two of them severe. Police arrest the suspect. The case is reminiscent of a fatal attack at the beginning of the year.
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