Mehmet Ali Ağca

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Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish gunman and former member of the far-right Grey Wolves organization, best known for shooting and critically wounding Pope John Paul II in 1981.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkish national
assassin
human
activePeriod early 1980s
late 1970s
convictedOf assassination of Abdi İpekçi
countryOfCitizenship Turkey
countryOfImprisonment Italy
Turkey
criminalCharge attempted murder
murder
dateOfAssassinationAttemptOnPopeJohnPaulII 1981-05-13
dateOfBirth 1958-01-09
detainedBy Italian authorities
Turkish authorities
ethnicGroup Turks
event extradition to Turkey
extraditedTo Turkey
familyName Ağca
givenName Mehmet
surface form: Mehmet Ali
ideology far-right politics
knownFor shooting and critically wounding Pope John Paul II in 1981
memberOf Grey Wolves
name Mehmet Ali Ağca self-link
notableEvent shooting of Pope John Paul II
notableFor assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II
occupation gunman
political assassin
papalVisit visited by Pope John Paul II in prison
papalVisitYear 1983
pardonReceivedFrom Italy
perpetratorOf shooting of Pope John Paul II
surface form: assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II

assassination of Abdi İpekçi
placeOfAssassinationAttemptOnPopeJohnPaulII St. Peter's Square
Vatican City
placeOfBirth Hekimhan
Malatya Province
Turkey
politicalContext Cold War era terrorism in Europe and Turkey
releaseFromItalianPrison 2000
releaseFromTurkishPrison 2010
religion Islam
sentence life imprisonment in Italy
sexOrGender male
status living
subjectOf international controversy over alleged foreign involvement in the papal assassination attempt
victimOfCrime none known
weaponUsed handgun

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Mehmet Ali Ağca name Mehmet Ali Ağca self-link