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Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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Turkish assassin and Grey Wolves member (born 1958)
Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish hitman and former member of the Grey Wolves. He murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979 and was imprisoned, but he escaped. He travelled illegally to Vatican City on 13 May 1981, and attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II on the same…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
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