The incident happened around 8:00 am (0500 GMT) in Turgutlu in the province of Manisa, near the western resort city of Izmir, the regional governor’s office said.<\/p>\n
School shootings are rare in Turkey, although there were two attacks in April on consecutive days in southern Turkey that sparked widespread anger.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
IHA had a similar image of what appeared to be the same person with a gun, although this time running.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident, the governor’s office said.<\/p>\n
– School safety –<\/p>\n
The attack came five months after two back-to-back school shootings that raised public concerns about security in Turkish schools.<\/p>\n
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. The attacker died at the scene.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Following the two attacks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed a deputy education minister and pledged his government would introduce tighter controls on gun ownership.<\/p>\n
He vowed school safety would be one of the government’s top priorities.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
– New security measures –<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ciftci said authorities had strengthened school security following the April shootings.<\/p>\n
“To ensure such pain is never experienced again, I would like to remind everyone that we must be extremely vigilant this year,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said 31,000 school grounds supervisors had been deployed for the first time.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Schools classified as lower risk are assigned police liaison officers who work in coordination with school administrations.<\/p>\n
Police charged with monitoring security, public order, narcotics and juvenile issues would conduct regular patrols around schools, he said.<\/p>\n
Authorities would also inspect school buses and review abandoned buildings near schools under the new measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened around 8:00 am (0500 GMT) in Turgutlu in the province of Manisa, near the western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-856387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}