Mehmet Ali Ağca

Camillo Cibin was the papal bodyguard who leapt over a wooden barrier in St Peter's Square to prevent the Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca from escaping after he tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. Grabbing Agca as he...

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...crash where Catli died, he was found with a passport under the name of "Mehmet Ozbay" - an alias also used by Mehmet Ali Agca. Beginning in August 1980 Agca began criss-crossing the Mediterranean region, changing passports and identities,...

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...famously leapt across the barriers of St Peter's Square to come to the Pope's aid after he was shot by his Turkish assailant, Mehmet Ali Agca, on May 13, 1981. The Pope recovered and later forgave Agca. One year later, Cibin stopped...

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An attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II occurred on May 13, 1981. Mehmet Ali Agca shot and seriously wounded the Pope in the Vatican City's St. Peter's Square. Agca was convicted for this crime in July 1981 by Italian justice, and...

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...the first of a number of anonymous phone calls. Emanuela was supposedly the prisoner of a terrorist group demanding the release of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot the Pope in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. No other information...

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...the drama concerning the Marian apparitions at Fatima was the assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman, in 1981 on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition. A year later, during John Paul's...

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...at a baptism ceremony at the Vatican after his release from prison in January. In comments relayed by his lawyer, Mehmet Ali Agca also says he wants to visit the grave of Pope John Paul II, meet with Pope Benedict XVI and produce a...

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...II, in Rome in 1981. Now serving a jail sentence in Istanbul for crimes committed in the 1970s, Agca said through his lawyer on Monday: "I (Mehmet Ali Agca) asked the Turkish government to release me for one day so that I can discuss...

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...by U.N. investigators to interview him in the February 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut. · ANKARA, Turkey -- Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was returned Friday to Kartal prison eight days after his...

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...the day after his release from prison -- and authorities said the military could ask for his arrest for draft dodging. Mehmet Ali Agca was required to report each day to a police station to allow authorities to keep tabs on him, at least...

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