11.11.2026 11:05
In the HTS report concerning the attack at Ayser Çalık Secondary School in Kahramanmaraş, in which teacher Ayla Kara and 9 students lost their lives, a 38-minute 19-second internet connection was detected on the line of the attacker, İsa Aras Mersinli, from the time he left the house until the moment of the attack. In shooting range records, it was seen that two days ago the attacker made gun-firing motions while looking at his phone. The families want the Discord correspondence and the role of the police officers at the shooting range to be investigated.
News: Mehmet OFLAZ(ANKARA) -
In the HTS examination report regarding the school attack in Kahramanmaraş, a total of 38 minutes and 19 seconds of internet connection records were identified for the phone line used by the attacker, İsa Aras Mersinli, from the moment he left the house, including the moment of the attack. In camera recordings, Mersinli was seen looking at his mobile phone and making a hand gesture of firing a gun before leaving the shooting range, where he had gone with his father two days before the attack. Families who lost their children in the attack are demanding an investigation into the internet traffic, Discord correspondence, and the role of police officers on duty at the shooting range, and that possible negligence and connections be uncovered.
In the armed attack carried out on April 15 at Ayser Çalık Middle School in Kahramanmaraş by the school's 8th-grade student İsa Aras Mersinli, teacher Ayla Kara and 9 students lost their lives, and 15 students were injured.
In the image examination reports regarding the attack, camera recordings of the route the attacker used from his home to the school were included. According to the records, on the day of the incident at 13:14:19, Mersinli left his residence in Haydarbey Neighborhood and, after waiting approximately "1 minute" in front of the school, entered through the main entrance door.
The ANKA News Agency reporter also obtained other footage and examination reports regarding the incident.
MOMENTS OF THE ATTACK ON SECURITY CAMERAS
On April 15, the day the attack was carried out, İsa Aras Mersinli was seen at 13:14 in camera recordings in front of his house door, with a bag on his back, a drawing folder and a mobile phone in his hand, and earphones in his ear.
It was determined that Mersinli entered the school in the same way, passing through the main entrance door at 13:23 and going directly up to the first floor.
The moments when Mersinli, with the drawing folder in his hand, first entered the boys' restroom and then the girls' restroom and waited for a while in front of the window at the end of the corridor, during which he looked at his phone at intervals, and at 13:25 took out a silver-colored handgun inside the girls' restroom and checked it, were also reflected in security camera footage.
According to security camera records in the school corridors, Mersinli, who entered the school at 13:23, walked for a while in the corridor with the gun he had taken in the girls' restroom and looked at his phone. In the footage, the corridor was seen to be empty at these moments.
While Mersinli was waiting in front of the girls' restroom, at 13:29 he first opened fire on two female students walking toward him in the corridor. The attacker then went to the window, left the gun in his hand, took a black-colored handgun from the pocket of his jacket that he had placed there earlier, and fired toward the stair entrance at the other end of the school. In the footage, there were moments when, due to this gunfire, "Religious Culture teacher A. T., about whom an investigation permission was granted by the district governor's office, School Principal C. K., and Social Studies teacher M. Ü., for whom no investigation permission was requested, fled." The moments when Mersinli entered the classroom opposite the girls' restroom at 13:29 were also reflected in the cameras.
CAMERA RECORDING WAS CUT AT 13:30
While the attack was continuing, at 13:30:08, school counselor E. İ., who was seen coming down the second-floor stairs after gunshots and looking toward the scene, ran to the lower floor at 13:30:17 shouting "Electricity, electricity," and at 13:30:28 lowered the switches on the school's electrical panel, which was captured in camera recordings.
For this reason, it was stated in the report that "the section of the school's internal security camera recordings between 13:22 and 13:30:28 could be obtained."
HIS INTERNET WAS ON THROUGHOUT THE ATTACK
In the HTS examination report, findings were also included regarding the phone line starting with 0546, used by the attacker İsa Aras Mersinli and registered in the name of his father, Uğur Mersinli.
According to the report, two calls were made from the line in question on the day of the incident with the other phone line stated to be used by his mother, Peyman Pınar Mersinli, and also registered in the name of Uğur Mersinli. It was recorded that these calls lasted 193 seconds at 13:10 and 22 seconds at 13:32.
In the examination, it was determined that the internet connection records of the line starting with 0546 used by the attacker were also active on the day of the incident. It was stated that there were GPRS records on the line for 1,108 seconds at 13:14 and 1,191 seconds at 13:33.
According to security camera recordings, it was determined that Mersinli, who left his home at 13:14 and began walking toward the school, reached the school at 13:22, and started the attack at 13:29, had a total of 38 minutes and 19 seconds of internet connection from the moment he left the house.
In the report, it was stated that the outgoing and incoming call records of the line in question were not very active, and that the calls were mostly made with the phone lines stated to be used by his mother and father. It was recorded that these calls did not exceed three to four times a day.
HE MADE A HAND GESTURE OF FIRING A GUN AT THE SHOOTING RANGE
In addition, after the attacker's father, Uğur Mersinli, stated in his testimony that on April 13, 2026, he went with his son to the Kahramanmaraş Provincial Police Department Shooting Range and had his son shoot, the camera recordings belonging to the shooting range were also examined.
According to the examination report, İsa Aras Mersinli and his father Uğur Mersinli arrived at the shooting range by vehicle two days before the attack, on April 13, around 14:44-14:45. Father and son sat for a while at the shooting range with Police Chief G. K., institutional physician G. İ., and police officers on duty. Before leaving the area after shooting at the range, around 16:14, Mersinli was reflected in camera recordings making a hand gesture of firing a gun while looking at his mobile phone.
In the first statement given by father Uğur Mersinli after the incident, the Maraş chests, which came to the agenda with his words, "My guns are kept in the bedroom. All of the guns and bullets are inside a locked Maraş chest. Magazines are not kept attached to the guns. When I am going to take the guns on me, I take the guns and magazines from different chests and go out. The Maraş chests in question are self-locking chests," were also included in the report. The report included photographs of three empty chests.
FAMILIES WANT THE ROLE OF SHOOTING RANGE STAFF TO BE INVESTIGATED
The families who lost their children in the school attack are demanding that the attacker's internet traffic before the incident, the people he corresponded with on Discord, and the role of police officers on duty at the police shooting range he visited with his father two days before the attack be investigated in all aspects, and that possible negligence and connections be uncovered.
In the indictment prepared regarding the attacker İsa Aras Mersinli's mother and father, it was stated: "Within the scope of the investigation by our Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, İsa Aras Mersinli's retrospective communication records (HTS) were examined, and in the communication records, no determination was made that a third person other than İsa Aras Mersinli incited, aided, or otherwise participated in the incident carried out by the perpetrator."
In the indictment, it was stated that in the digital examination, it was determined that in Mersinli's correspondence with some users who accessed from abroad via Discord before the incident, he shared that he would carry out an armed attack on Ayser Çalık Secondary School. In the indictment, it was recorded that necessary correspondence was carried out with the relevant judicial units and the representatives of social media platforms in order to determine whether the persons the perpetrator contacted via social media participated in the attack in any way. A severance decision had been issued regarding the persons Mersinli communicated with through social media applications.
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