Turkish Fascist Who Tried To Kill Pope Released From Jail

This guy was a member of the fascist Grey Wolves group.

From todays Telegraph:

Would-be assassin of Pope released from prison

(Filed: 12/01/2006)

The Turkish man who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981 has been released from prison.

Mehmet Ali Agca, who was being held in the Turkish capital Istanbul, was taken in handcuffs to a military recruitment office, where the Turkish army is expected to claim him for missed military service.

Agca, 48, had previously served 19 years in an Italian prison for the assassination attempt in St Peter's Square. He was pardoned at the Pope's behest in 2000.

He was then extradited to Turkey to serve a separate sentence in an Istanbul jail for robbery and murder.

Under new Turkish laws, his time served in Italy was deducted from the 25 years left on his sentence in Turkey for the 1979 murder of liberal newspaper editor, Abdi Ipekci.

A few well-wishers threw flowers at the white car which took Agca away from jail, and Turkish ultra-nationalist supporters gathered outside the prison gate.

At the time of the attack, Agca was a 23-year-old far-Right militant, but he has given conflicting reasons for his attempt on the Pope's life.

At a 1986 trial, prosecutors failed to prove charges that Bulgarian secret services had hired Agca to kill the Pope on behalf of the Soviet Union.