For the third time in a single year, a Turkish school has become the site of violence that was, until 2026, entirely foreign to the country's experience. On a Tuesday morning in Manisa province, a fifteen-year-old student opened fire on his own classmates, injuring eleven and leaving two fighting for their lives — a tragedy that arrives before the wounds of April have fully healed. Turkey now confronts a question that other nations have long struggled to answer: how does a society protect its children when the threat emerges from within their own walls?
Fifteen-year-old detained after shooting injures 11 at Turkish school
Eleven students injured with two in critical condition in the shooting at a vocational high school in Manisa, Turkey.