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Turkish police detain 162 people over online praise for school shootings

  • Turkish police detained 162 people for spreading misleading information and praising two deadly school shootings online, according to Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek.
  • Authorities blocked access to 1,104 social media accounts and identified 67 users linked to posts targeting 54 schools and suggesting potential attacks, all of whom were arrested.
  • Two gun attacks in southeastern Turkey resulted in nine deaths and multiple injuries, including several critically injured.
  • The attacks occurred on April 15-16, 2026, involving schools in southeastern Turkey, including Ayser Çalık Secondary School and a high school in Şanlıurfa city.
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Turkey's authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people on Thursday suspected of posting messages "placing criminals" and "affecting public order" following the two attacks carried out during the last few days in two schools in the south of the Eurasian country, including one in Kahramanmaras who left nine dead and one in Sanliurfa with 16 injured.The Turkish Minister of Justice, Akin Gurlek, has pointed out in a social media message that "th…

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Aydınlık broke the news in Türkiye on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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