Overview
- A student opened fire in two classrooms at Ayser Calık Middle School in Kahramanmaraş on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13, with six in serious condition, officials said.
- The eighth-grader was found dead after the attack, and the governor said he carried five guns and seven magazines believed to be his retired-police father’s, with state media reporting the father’s detention.
- In nearby Şanlıurfa on Tuesday, a former pupil used a pump-action shotgun at a vocational high school in Siverek, injuring 16 people before killing himself, according to the governor and the Interior Ministry.
- Authorities launched criminal and administrative probes, ordered temporary closures at the affected schools, and warned broadcasters not to air graphic footage under national media rules.
- Ministers said the cases were not terror-related and called such shootings rare in Turkey, a stance likely to focus debate on campus security and safe storage of firearms in homes.