said on X.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe circumstances under which the child obtained the gun used in the attack, the conditions of the weapon\u2019s storage, the parents\u2019 obligations regarding care and supervision, and allegations of bullying prior to the incident are being investigated thoroughly and from multiple angles,\u201d Gurlek added.<\/p>\n
Images and video posted online showed a male figure walking on a street near the school with a rifle in his hands. He was then seen running back from the same street.<\/p>\n
Video outside the school showed police pushing away families and others outside the premises.<\/p>\n
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n
Images have surfaced that showed the suspected gunman holding his weapon. @haskologlu\/X<\/p>\n
The suspected shooter was seen on surveillance video before being detained. @bpthaber\/X<\/p>\n
The local governor\u2019s office has said the attack took place at around 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) at the Inci Uzmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in the Turgutlu district.<\/p>\n
Two\u00a0deadly school shootings\u00a0in April caused outrage in Turkey and prompted officials to\u00a0bring in new security measures\u00a0for the 2026-2027 academic year, including tighter gun controls.<\/p>\n
Before then, the country had not had a history of such attacks.<\/p>\n
Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci and Education Minister Yusuf Tekin were going to Manisa to carry out inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0A student opened fire in front of their high school in Turkey\u2019s western province of Manisa\u00a0early\u00a0on Tuesday, wounding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22062,2246,959,84,70,406],"class_list":["post-53514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-turkiye","tag-mass-shootings","tag-school-shootings","tag-shootings","tag-turkey","tag-turkish","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}