Mehmet Ali Ağca
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Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish former hitman for the Grey Wolves. On 1 February 1979, he murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi, known for his leftist views, and was imprisoned, but escaped. He travelled illeg
The Fiat Popemobile in which Pope John Paul II was the subject of an assassination attempt. This vehicle is now in the "Carriage museum" in Vatican City.
Pope John Paul II
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Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century,
Mehmet Ali Ağca
…state-sponsored Counter-Guerrilla. In 2014, 33 years after his crime, Ağca visited Vatican City to lay white roses on the tomb of the recently canonised John Paul II, and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis, a request that was denied. Mehmet Ali Ağca was born on 9 January 1958 in Hekimhan in a poor Turkish peasant…
John Paul II in 1988
The wedding portrait of John Paul II's parents, Emilia and Karol Wojtyła Sr.
Wojtyła on the day of his first communion
Wojtyła (second from right) in a Baudienst forced labour work crew during the occupation of Poland (1939–1945), c. 1941