ISTANBUL (Dispatches) -- A 15-year-old student opened fire outside a vocational high school in western Turkey on Tuesday morning, injuring at least 10 students, two critically, before being detained by police in an attack that renewed national anguish over school safety just months after the country’s deadliest school shooting.
The shooting occurred around 8:00 a.m. local time on a street outside İnci Üzmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in the Turgutlu district of Manisa province, near the western city of Izmir. 
The attacker, identified by Turkish media as ninth-grade student Halil Orhan, used a hunting rifle registered to his grandmother and taken from his grandfather’s home, according to Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi.
Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said 11 students were wounded, two seriously, and that the suspect’s parents and grandfather had also been detained as part of the investigation. 
“How the weapon used in the attack ended up in the minor’s hands, the conditions under which it was kept and supervised, and allegations of bullying prior to the incident are all being investigated,” Gürlek wrote on X.
CCTV footage broadcast by DHA news agency showed a young man in black jeans, a black jacket and a green top walking along a street openly carrying what appeared to be a long-barreled rifle. 
Other footage showed police wrestling a man in a white shirt to the ground as onlookers screamed and filmed with mobile phones.
Interior Minister Çiftçi confirmed that three students remained in intensive care Tuesday, while one had been discharged. He said the weapon was registered to the attacker’s grandmother and that the boy took it from his grandfather’s house, adding that “this is entirely a task for families” regarding safe weapon storage.
The attack came one day after Education Minister Yusuf Tekin and Çiftçi signed a protocol outlining new school security measures for the 2026-2027 academic year, which began September 14. Authorities deployed 31,000 school grounds supervisors for the first time and assigned police officers to high-risk schools on permanent duty.
The shooting evoked painful memories of April’s attack in Kahramanmaraş, where a 14-year-old killed a teacher and nine students before dying by suicide, using his father’s weapon. A day earlier, another teenager wounded 16 people at his former school in Şanlıurfa. 
Opposition politicians demanded accountability, with DEVA Party leader Ali Babacan noting this was the third school shooting in a year and calling for the issue to be addressed “with its sociological, psychological and security dimensions”.