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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Footage Shows Gunman Walking Down the Street with Rifle: Eleven Students From Turkish School Wounded
At least eleven students were injured in a shooting on Tuesday morning outside a vocational school in the Turkish city of Manisa, near the resort town of Izmir. This was reported by Minister of Justice Akin Gürlek. Two of the injured are in critical condition. Police and medical services are on the scene. The shooter has been arrested.
Turkey School Shooting Leaves 11 Injured Outside High School, Teen Suspect Arrested
At least 11 people were injured, including two critically, after a gunman opened fire outside a vocational high school in western Turkey on Tuesday morning, authorities said. Police arrested the suspected shooter shortly after the attack as investigators launched both criminal and administrative inquiries. The shooting occurred at around 8:00 a.m. local time outside İnci […]
Eight people were injured today in a shooting accident near a high school in Manisa, western Turkey.
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.
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