Overview
- The attack at Ayser Calik School in Kahramanmaras, carried out Wednesday by a 14-year-old student, left eight children and a 55-year-old maths teacher dead, and a tenth victim died in hospital Thursday.
- Investigators say the boy used five pistols said to belong to his police officer father, and a court jailed the father pending trial as searches uncovered a document planning a major attack dated April 11.
- The interior and education ministers convened an emergency school‑security meeting in Ankara with all 81 provincial governors, and authorities deployed inspectors and offered psychosocial support to students and families.
- Police said the attacker used a WhatsApp image referencing 2014 US killer Elliot Rodger, and they detained 162 people and blocked more than 1,000 accounts over posts that glorified crime or hinted at copycat threats.
- Following Tuesday's separate Sanliurfa high‑school shooting that wounded 16, teachers marched in Ankara and Izmir calling for tighter school safeguards, while families held funerals for the children and their teacher.