2025 Balçova police station shooting

IS has carried out numerous attacks on Turkey over the past decade, including a double bombing at a political rally in 2015 that killed 34 and wounded over 100 in the country’s deadliest terror attack. == Attack ==

Footage posted by the Gercek Gundem news website showed a video of Bigül in a balaclava, a black top, and pale trousers jogging along the pavement carrying a shotgun while entering the building. the assailant first shot and killed police officer Hasan Akın who was standing guard in front of the station. The second victim was Chief Inspector Muhsin Aydemir who was killed in the ensuing shootout. Three others were injured, including a civilian. The attacker, who later died in the hospital, == Perpetrator ==

Eren Bigül (2009–2025) was a 16-year-old high school student living in the Balçova district of İzmir, on the same street as the Salih İşgören Police Station where the incident occurred. According to officials, he had no known criminal history. On the day of the attack, he reportedly used a shotgun, believed to belong to his father, to open fire on the police station. He was taken into custody while injured and transported to a hospital, where he later died. Link to the Islamic State An X (formerly Twitter) account allegedly belonging to the attacker contained a post stating "I will perform a suicide attack soon and become a martyr, Allah willing," along with posts related to the Islamic State, according to reports. ==References==