Türkiye-School Shooting/Funeral

Funeral held for victims of school shooting, as gov't vows to tighten school security

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  • ID : 8475357
  • Dateline : April 16, 2026
  • Location : Türkiye
  • Category : Society/Other
  • Duration : 1'58
  • Audio Language : Turkish/English/Nats
  • Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)
  • Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
  • Published : 2026-04-18 17:06
  • Last Modified : 2026-04-18 19:07:30
  • Version : 1
  • ID : 8475357
  • Dateline : 16 أبريل 2026
  • Location : تركيا
  • Category : Society/Other
  • Duration : 1'58
  • Audio Language : التركية/الإنجليزية/الصوت الطبيعي
  • Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)
  • Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
  • Published : 2026-04-18 19:02
  • Last Modified : 2026-04-18 19:07:30
  • Version : 1

Türkiye-School Shooting/Funeral

Funeral held for victims of school shooting, as gov't vows to tighten school security

Dateline : April 16, 2026

Location : Türkiye

Duration : 1'58

  • English
  • العربية


Kahramanmaras City, Türkiye - April 16, 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of funeral for school shooting victims in progress, people in grief, crying
2. SOUNDBITE (Turkish, dubbed in English) Emre Kurkut, teacher (partially overlaid with shot 3):
"Sadly, we lost the child of our colleague. We are in indescribable pain. I hope security measures will be in place in schools and that our students can come safely, because right now, we unfortunately don't even have the strength to go to school."
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3. Funeral for school shooting victims in progress
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4. Mustafa Kazici, father of school shooting victim, in deep grief
5. Various of others, people sending adolescences to Kazici
6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish, dubbed in English) Mustafa Kazici, father of school shooting victim:
"Our pain is great. These may sound like familiar words, but they are words that truly reflect this moment and what we are going through."
7. SOUNDBITE (Turkish, dubbed in English) Kutay Doluzengin, student:
"I felt like it was a massacre. I was scared. I kept thinking, what if it had been my sibling? What if it had been me? What if it had been my friend? What I would have done."
8. School campus
9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish, dubbed in English) Mustafa Kazici, father of school shooting victim (partially overlaid with shot 10):
"There must be a police officer at the entrance of every school for security. Just as you cannot enter shopping malls without going through X-ray screening, I believe the same should be implemented in schools. Children's bags should be checked as well."
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10. Various of security staff at school campus; sign of e Ayser Calik School; national flag of Türkiye
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11. Various of funeral for school shooting victims in progress, people in grief, crying
12. Various of people placing flowers on school fence in commemoration of school shooting victims


Thursday was marked by grief and frustration in southern Türkiye's Kahramanmaras City, where funerals for the school shooting victims took place, and the city came together in mourning.

At least nine people were killed and 13 others wounded in the attack on Wednesday.

The attacker, an eighth-grade student at the same school who later committed suicide, had used a photo of a U.S. mass shooter as his profile picture on social media, according to the police. The father of the gunman - a former police officer whose weapons were used - has been taken into custody.

At the funerals, families clung to coffins during prayers, many of them in tears.

"Sadly, we lost the child of our colleague. We are in indescribable pain. I hope security measures will be in place in schools and that our students can come safely, because right now, we unfortunately don't even have the strength to go to school," said Emre Kurkut, a teacher.

At the house in mourning, Mustafa Kazici grieved over his 11-year-old daughter Suranur. He said she was among the first to be shot.

"Our pain is great. These may sound like familiar words, but they are words that truly reflect this moment and what we are going through," said the father.

Details of the incident have been emerging. As the attack unfolded, some students were seen jumping out of windows on the second floor, while it's been reported that the teacher who was killed died as she shielded her students, saving others. The school is now closed - at least until Monday.

Kutay Doluzengin, a student, said he arrived shortly after the first shots and is still shaken by what he saw.

"I felt like it was a massacre. I was scared. I kept thinking, what if it had been my sibling? What if it had been me? What if it had been my friend? What I would have done," said Doluzengin.

Amid his grief, Kazici also called for stronger security measures.

"There must be a police officer at the entrance of every school for security. Just as you cannot enter shopping malls without going through X-ray screening, I believe the same should be implemented in schools. Children's bags should be checked as well," said Kazici.

The government says it plans to introduce tighter school security, increase inspections, limit access to weapons, and expand psychosocial support.

The incident took place just one day after a school shooting in the Siverek district in southeastern Türkiye's Sanliurfa Province, where a former student at the school injured at least 16 people with a shotgun on campus before taking his own life.

ID : 8475357

Published : 2026-04-18 17:06

Last Modified : 2026-04-18 19:07:30

Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland

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