Overview
- An eighth-grade pupil opened fire in two classrooms at a Kahramanmaraş middle school on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13, before being found dead.
- Officials said the 13- to 14-year-old carried five firearms and seven magazines believed to belong to his retired-police father, and his parents were detained for questioning.
- A day earlier in Siverek, Şanlıurfa, a former student used a pump-action shotgun at his old high school and wounded 16 people before killing himself.
- Prosecutors launched comprehensive inquiries, the interior minister said the Kahramanmaraş attack was an individual criminal act, and media regulators barred airing traumatic images to curb misinformation.
- Teachers’ unions and national leaders called for stronger entry checks, more security staff and counselling in schools, as rare back-to-back shootings in a country with strict gun licensing left families grieving and students fleeing classrooms through windows.