On a Tuesday morning in Turgutlu, Turkey, a high school student took a rifle from his grandparents' home and opened fire outside his school, wounding eleven classmates and sending a nation already scarred by earlier school shootings deeper into a reckoning with guns, youth, and the duty of care adults owe to children. The attack arrives just days into a new academic year, at a moment when Turkey had already begun fortifying its schools — a reminder that institutional responses, however swift, cannot always outrun private grief or grievance. The question of how a teenager came to hold a weapon,
Turkey school shooting injures 11 pupils; student arrested
At least 11 students were injured, with two in critical condition following the shooting.