Erdogan promises tighter gun controls after deadly Turkey school attacks
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FILE PHOTO: People carry the coffin of a victim of a school shooting during the funeral prayers at a mosque in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 16, 2026. REUTERS/Ensar Ozdemir/File Photo
ANKARA, April 20 (Reuters) - Turkey will tighten gun-ownership rules and increase penalties for owners whose children find the firearms, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after last week's rare, deadly school shootings.
The second of the two separate attacks by students last week killed eight pupils and a teacher in a southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, shocking a nation in which such school-based violence is very rare.
Erdogan said the government will also take additional steps to monitor the internet as part of its response to the incidents.
(Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever; Writing by Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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