A gunman opens fire near a high school in Turkey, at least 4 wounded, reports say – WTOP News
Police detained the suspect after the shooting injured eight people, including students, and prompted a search and tighter security around the school.
- 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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Five people were injured in a shooting outside the entrance of a school in Turkey, according to news agency Reuters and Turkish media. An as yet unknown individual opened fire in front of the secondary school in the west of the country. The shooting took place at 8:00 local time in the Turgutlu district, about 50 kilometers east of Izmir. It occurred in front of a technical and vocational secondary school. It is still unclear exactly what happe…
In Turkish Manis, an unknown person opened fire near the school building, at least five people injured, including students.
Eight injured in shooting by Turkey school, suspect detained
ISTANBUL—A gunman opened fire outside a high school in western Turkey on Tuesday, wounding eight people, before being detained by police, local officials said. The incident happened around 8:00 am (0500 GMT) in Turgutlu in the province of Manisa, near the western resort city of Izmir, the regional governor's office said. School shootings are rare in Turkey, although there were two attacks in April on consecutive days in southern Turkey that spar…
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