Türkiye denies claims of evidence tampering in school shooting case

Türkiye’s Centre for Combating Disinformation has rejected allegations that evidence was falsified following the school shooting in Kahramanmaraş, stating that the claims circulating on social media are unfounded.

“Claims spread on some social media platforms that cleanup operations began at the scene of the tragic incident in Kahramanmaraş before the completion of the crime scene investigation and that evidence was falsified are completely baseless,” the agency said in a post on X.

Bazı sosyal medya platformlarında yer alan, Kahramanmaraş’ta yaşanan acı olayın ardından "olay yeri incelemesi bitmeden temizlik çalışmalarının başladığı ve delillerin karartıldığı" yönündeki iddialar tamamen asılsızdır.

Cumhuriyet Savcılığı koordinesinde yürütülen olay yeri… pic.twitter.com/pNZKQvuccS

— Dezenformasyonla Mücadele Merkezi (@dmmiletisim) April 16, 2026

It added that the crime scene inspection and all evidence collection procedures, coordinated by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, were thoroughly conducted by expert teams and fully completed. All operations, it emphasised, began only after the crime scene had been fully examined.

On April 15, 2026, a mass shooting occurred at Ayser Çalık Secondary School in Kahramanmaraş, southern Türkiye, when a 14-year-old student opened fire in classrooms, killing at least nine people, including students and a teacher, and injuring more than a dozen others before dying at the scene.

By Jeyhun Aghazada