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Ağca was extradited to Turkey in 2000 by benefiting from the Conditional Amnesty Law.
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Ağca was born in the Hekimhan district, Malatya Province in Turkey.
According to investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, Mehmet Ali Ağca had worked with Abdullah Çatlı in the 1979 assassination, who " then reportedly helped organize Ağca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Çatlı was even involved in the Pope's assassination attempt ".
Lucy Komisar added that at the scene of the Mercedes-Benz crash where Çatlı died, he was found with a passport under the name of " Mehmet Özbay " — an alias also used by Mehmet Ali Ağca.
According to Ağca, the plan was for him and the back-up gunman Oral Çelik to open fire in St. Peter's Square and escape to the Bulgarian embassy under the cover of the panic generated by a small explosion.
When the Pope passed them, Ağca fired several shots and wounded him, but was grabbed by spectators and Vatican security chief Camillo Cibin and prevented from finishing the assassination or escaping.
Ağca was sentenced, in July 1981, to life imprisonment in Italy for the assassination attempt.
" Although Ağca had been quoted as saying that " to me Pope was the incarnation of all that is capitalism ", and had attempted to murder him, Ağca developed a friendship with the pontiff.
In 1983, he and Ağca met and spoke privately at the prison where Ağca was being held.
After serving almost 20 years of a life sentence in prison in Italy, Ağca was pardoned by the then Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in June 2000 and deported to Turkey.
Ağca was arrested on June 25 and incarcerated in the Maltepe Military Prison.
After landing in Cologne, the hijackers demanded the release of Ağca, who at the time was serving a life sentence in Italy for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.
Ağca was not released and the hijackers surrendered.
For usurpation and money theft Ağca was handed a 36 year prison sentence.
Ağca was sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder.
Ağca was released on parole on January 12, 2006.
Ağca was released from jail on January 18, 2010.
* Rabia Kazan, who interviewed Ali Ağca when he was in jail
* Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience.
Ağca and Turkey
* June 9 – Two men hijack Air Malta Flight KM 830, a Boeing 737-2Y5Adv with 78 other people on board flying from Malta to Istanbul, Turkey, and order the plane to divert to Cologne, Germany, where they demand the release of Mehmet Ali Ağca, who is serving a life sentence in Italy for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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* May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience.
After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a much stronger emphasis has been placed on the Swiss Guards ' functional, non-ceremonial roles.
* Sergei Antonov ( 1948 – 2007 ), a Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II
Ağca and from
Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.
According to Reuters, Ağca had " escaped with suspected help from sympathizers in the security services ".
Ağca and .
* 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
Ağca has described himself as a mercenary with no political orientation, although he is known to have been a member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves organization.
Beginning in August 1980 Ağca began criss-crossing the Mediterranean region, changing passports and identities, perhaps to hide his trigger point of origin in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Following his shooting, Pope John Paul II asked people to " pray for my brother ( Ağca ), whom I have sincerely forgiven.
Both cases about Ağca were merged and tried before the Kadıköy 1st High Criminal Court.
In early February 2005, during the Pope's illness, Ağca sent a letter to the Pope wishing him well and also warning him that the world would end soon.
was and extradited
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