{"id":62438,"date":"2026-04-16T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/62438\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:28:17","slug":"teachers-protest-as-turkey-buries-school-shooting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/62438\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers protest as Turkey buries school shooting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thousands of teachers protested in Turkey on Thursday after two school shootings in as many days left the country reeling, with the authorities cracking down on social media as crowds gathered for the funerals of nine victims of the second shooting, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/p>\n

As family members and mourners gathered around coffins draped with the Turkish flag in the southern province of Kahramanmara\u015f, people also placed roses on the steps of the school that was attacked, many locals in shock at what had unfolded a day earlier when a 14-year-old arrived at the building with five guns and opened fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel terrible. In front of my eyes, so many children were jumping, coming out injured, covered in blood,\u201d one woman who lives nearby said, telling Agence France-Presse she had followed what happened from her balcony.<\/p>\n

Authorities said nine people died in Wednesday\u2019s attack, eight children aged 10 and 11 and their teacher, a day after an ex-student opened fire at his former high school in the southeastern province of \u015eanl\u0131urfa, leaving 16 injured.<\/p>\n

The suspects in both cases were also killed, authorities have said, with the first attacker taking his own life when cornered by police.<\/p>\n

Some 3,500 teachers gathered in Ankara to call for the education minister to quit, some shouting, \u201cBlood has stained my profession\u201d and others chanting, \u201cWhere were you while the children were dying?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I couldn\u2019t look\u2019<\/p>\n

In the buildup to the funerals, police detained dozens of web users for praising the shooters or spreading misinformation and blocked hundreds of social media accounts.<\/p>\n

The authorities have said the second attacker, the son of a former police officer, planned his attack in advance.<\/p>\n

Documents found on his computer from April 11 indicated he \u201cintended to carry out a major operation in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said he died at the scene, though it was not immediately clear how. His father was detained, police said, while local media reported that his mother, a teacher, had also been taken into custody.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings are rare in Turkey, and the incidents provoked shock across the country, with those living in Kahramanmara\u015f still shaken on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren jumped out of the window and came out injured,\u201d an eyewitness who lives near school told AFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, I couldn\u2019t look anymore. I didn\u2019t send my children to school that day.\u201d said the woman, who did not want to be identified.<\/p>\n

\u2018Isolated act\u2019<\/p>\n

Police said the 14-year-old attacker had referenced a mass shooter in the United States in a photo on his WhatsApp profile.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitial findings from the investigation revealed that the perpetrator used an image on his WhatsApp profile referencing Elliot Rodger, who carried out an attack in the United States in 2014,\u201d the police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Rodger killed six people on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, before taking his own life.<\/p>\n

According to initial findings, no link to terrorism has been established in Wednesday\u2019s shooting, both the police and the prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis appears to be an isolated act,\u201d the police added.<\/p>\n

Schools will remain closed in Kahramanmara\u015f on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan expressed sorrow over Wednesday\u2019s \u201ctragic attack\u201d and said the incident would be thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of teachers protested in Turkey on Thursday after two school shootings in as many days left the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[16275,34305,4412,34306,34307,131,132,34308,155],"class_list":["post-62438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-education-minister-yusuf-tekin","tag-kahramanmaras-school-shooting","tag-protest","tag-sanliurfa-school-shooting","tag-school-shooting","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-teachers-union","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116414860914456537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}