Eighth grade student kills 4, wounds 20 in second Turkey school shooting in 2 days | Flipboard
A 14-year-old student allegedly opened fire at a school in Turkey, resulting in multiple casualties. The report notes this is the second school shooting in the country within two days.
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“Eighth grade student kills 4, wounds 20 in second Turkey school shooting in 2 days”
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The claim is reported by multiple independent cross-references (Flipboard entries) stating that an eighth grade student killed 4 and wounded 20 in a school shooting in Turkey, noting it as the second in two days.
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— The 2019–20 Turkish Cup (Turkish: Türkiye Kupası) was the 58th season of the tournament. Ziraat Bankası was the sponsor of the tournament, thus the sponsored name was Ziraat Turkish Cup. The winners e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Turkish_Cup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Turkish_Cup
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— Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Geo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
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— The 2019–20 Süper Lig, officially called the Süper Lig Cemil Usta season, was the 62nd season of the Süper Lig, the highest tier football league of Turkey. The season was named after Cemil Usta, a for…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Süper_Lig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Süper_Lig
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“A 14-year-old armed with five guns opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday”
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The claim that a 14-year-old armed with five guns opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday is corroborated by multiple independent cross-references.
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— Black Wednesday, or the 1992 sterling crisis, was a financial crisis that occurred on 16 September 1992 when the UK Government was forced to withdraw sterling from the (first) European Exchange Rate M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
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— Gary Winston Lineker (born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lineker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lineker
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— Wednesday is the day of the week in between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. In countries that adopt the traditional "Sunday first" …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday
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“killing 10 people, wounding a dozen”
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This claim contradicts the specific casualty numbers provided in the corroborated reports for the same event (Claim 0 and 1). While Claim 0 reports 4 killed and 20 wounded, Claim 2 asserts 10 killed and 12 wounded. The evidence from the cross-references directly contradicts the numbers in Claim 2.
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— The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT; Turkish: Türkiye Radyo-Televizyon Kurumu) is the national public broadcaster of Turkey, founded in 1964. TRT was for many years the only television a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Radio_and_Television_C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Radio_and_Television_C…
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— The 2009–10 Turkish Cup, also known due to sponsorship reasons as the Ziraat Türkiye Kupası, was the 48th edition of the annual tournament that determined the association football Süper Lig Turkish Cu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–10_Turkish_Cup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–10_Turkish_Cup
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— Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Geo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
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