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Home > Authors > Prof. Dr. Gökhan Arslan > Before I could write about the Urfa massacre, Maraş erupted

Before I could write about the Urfa massacre, Maraş erupted

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Published: 16.04.2026 06:00

News of massacres occasionally hits the headlines.

When you type "massacre" into Google, the news about neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, appears before you.

It is the largest massacre in Europe since the Second World War.

Or the largest civilian massacre.

Almost all of the subsequent massacre news in the Google search results is from America.

The Virginia Tech shooting was a series of attacks that took place on Monday, April 16, 2007, involving two attacks on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. It is a school shooting that occurred at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols before committing suicide.

There is no end to similar news of massacres in America.

Somehow, Urfa also managed to enter the list of massacre news on Google.

Urfa, which previously made headlines with news about illegal electricity, has now become the place where the first spark of a massacre report was ignited.

It seems the time to be vigilant against "lone wolf" coded news, which has no precedent in Turkey, has not only come but has already passed.

I had just sent this article to press when a new massacre report hit Google.

This time from Maraş.

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