Mehmet Ali Ağca (9 January 1958, Hekimhan), journalist Abdi İpekçi assassination and Pope II. Turkish assassin known for the assassination attempt on Ioannes Paulus. He has been known as a hitman in the international community.
Mehmet Ali Ağca was born in the village of Güzelyurt in Malatya in 1958. After spending some of his childhood and youth in Malatya, he came to Istanbul with his family. After his high school education, he continued his education at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. During his university years, he met with various ideological groups. He was influenced by the currents of thought of the period.
Abdi İpekçi assassination
He was caught on 1 June 1979, 5 months after the incident, as the gunman for the assassination of Milliyet newspaper editor Abdi İpekçi on February 25, 1979. Although the police requested additional detention, this request was denied and he was put in Maltepe Military Prison. According to Fehmi Koru, who wrote under the pen name Taha Kıvanç in Zaman newspaper, Abdi İpekçi found that one of the masonic lodges he was in was related to the arms smuggling to Turkey, so he was killed.) Abdi İpekçi's last article was on arms smuggling. After 6 months from prison, on November 23, 1979, he was kidnapped with the help of a group allegedly including Abdullah Çatlı, whose name came to the fore with the Susurluk District, and went to Bulgaria. He was sentenced to death in absentia.
assassination of the pope
On May 13, 1981, II. Mehmet Ali Ağca, who assassinated Ioannes Paulus, was deposed 128 times during the assassination investigation. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy on March 22, 1986. Declaring that he forgave the person who shot him 4 days after he was shot, II. Ioannes Paulus personally visited Ağca on 27 December 1983 in the Italian prison.
He was extradited to Turkey on June 13, 2000, after the then Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi approved the pardon. It was announced that Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was extradited to Turkey only for the crime of extortion, could not be tried again for the murder of Abdi İpekçi. “I am not Abdi İpekçi's murderer. I just acted,” he said. Distributing letters to journalists after each trial, Mehmet Ali Ağca claimed that he would hold the Vatican accountable by threatening as well. He became Roman Catholic in 2007, “I have decided to renounce the Muslim faith and become a member of the Roman Catholic Church from May 13, 2007.” claimed. In December 2014, Pope II. He visited the tomb of John Paulus. He was deported to Turkey on 30 December 2014 because he entered Italy with inappropriate travel documents for this visit.
Mehmet Ali Ağca's death sentence for the murder of İpekçi was commuted to 1991 years in prison in accordance with the Execution Law enacted in 10. KadıköyA total of 36 years of heavy imprisonment for two separate crimes of extortion and robbery in Turkey was commuted to 7 years and 2 months in prison due to the Amnesty Law, which is known as the “Rahşan Amnesty”. It was released on January 12, 2006.
Upon the objection of the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the release decision, and Mehmet Ali Ağca was arrested again on 20 January 2006 and put in Kartal H Type Prison.
He completed his sentence on January 18, 2010 and was released from prison. Pope II. The assassination attempt on Ioannes Paulus inspired the play titled The 2017rd Secret of Fátima – Messiah Ağca, published by the author Calymath Bénin in 3.