A teenager opened fire outside a high school in Turgutlu, western Turkiye, on Tuesday morning, injuring eleven people, two seriously. Police quickly apprehended the suspect, who was seen in CCTV footage carrying what appeared to be a rifle. The attack comes five months after similar incidents in April that raised concerns about school safety and led to promises of tighter gun controls and increased security measures for schools.
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Story summary
On Tuesday morning around 8 AM local time, a gunman opened fire near Inci Uzmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Turgutlu district of Manisa province, Turkey, injuring at least 11 people. CCTV footage showed the suspect, believed to be a 15-year-old student, wearing black jeans, a black jacket, and a green top, carrying what appeared to be a rifle. Police quickly apprehended him after he fled from the scene; his parents and grandfather were also detained for questioning. Two of the injured were in critical condition. The motive behind the attack remains unclear but is being investigated, with reports suggesting it may involve bullying at the school.
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A teenager opened fire outside their high school in western Turkiye on Tuesday, wounding 11 people before being detained by police, a minister said.
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The incident happened around 8am (10am PKT) in Turgutlu in the province of Manisa, near the western resort city of Izmir, the regional governor’s office said.
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School shootings are rare in Turkiye, although there were two attacks in April on consecutive days in southern Turkiye that sparked widespread anger.
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“Eleven students were injured, two of them seriously..
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The minor who carried out the attack was quickly apprehended and taken into custody,” Justice Minister Akin Gurlek wrote on X.
He said the suspect’s parents and grandfather had also been detained by investigators probing the attack, which saw police and rescuers rushing to the scene alongside panicked parents.
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Several media outlets, including IHA news agency and NTV private television, said students were among the injured, with police and rescuers rushing to the scene.
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DHA news agency broadcast CCTV footage of the alleged attacker, a young man wearing black jeans, a black jacket and a green top, walking along a street holding what appeared to be a rifle.
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IHA had a similar image of what appeared to be the same person with a gun, although this time running.
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Footage from outside the school showed police wrestling a man in a white shirt to the ground before leading him away, as a woman screamed, with onlookers pressed against the school fence, filming with their mobile phones.
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Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident, the governor’s office said.
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The attack came five months after two back-to-back school shootings that raised public concerns about security in Turkish schools.
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In April, a 14-year-old opened fire at a school in the southern province of Kahramanmaras, killing a teacher and nine students aged 10 and 11.
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The attacker died at the scene.
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A day earlier, another teenager opened fire at his former high school in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, wounding 16 people before taking his own life when confronted by police.
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Following the two attacks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed a deputy education minister and pledged his government would introduce tighter controls on gun ownership.
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He vowed school safety would be one of the government’s top priorities.
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“When we look at similar attacks around the world, especially in the United States, we see one of the perpetrators’ aims is to terrorise society,” he said.
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The attack came a day after Education Minister Yusuf Tekin and Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci signed a protocol setting out security measures for the 2026-2027 academic year, which began on September 14.
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Ciftci said authorities had strengthened school security following the April shootings.
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“To ensure such pain is never experienced again, I would like to remind everyone that we must be extremely vigilant this year,” he said.
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He said 31,000 school grounds supervisors had been deployed for the first time.
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The interior ministry also carried out a fresh security assessment of schools and assigned police officers to first- and second-degree risk schools, where they remain on permanent duty, he said.
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Schools classified as lower risk are assigned police liaison officers who work in coordination with school administrations.
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Police charged with monitoring security, public order, narcotics and juvenile issues would conduct regular patrols around schools, he said.
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Authorities would also inspect school buses and review abandoned buildings near schools under the new measures.
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