Mehmet Ali Agca says he would like to meet new pope in Iznik for a few minutes, and calls Netanyahu the real terrorist ...

Turkish authorities removed Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II, from Iznik before Pope Leo XIV's arrival for the Council of Nicaea anniversary.

ANKARA, Turkey -- The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 29 years ago emerged from prison and declared himself a messenger from God, then spent his first night of freedom in a luxury hotel ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was arrested Friday and was set to return to jail after Turkey's Supreme Court overturned a lower court's decision to ...

The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II 33 years ago turned up at the Vatican today to put roses on his tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis. Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk, left John Paul ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 will be released from prison this week after a court decided he had completed his sentence for the attack on the pontiff and other crimes - ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II called for a "new American Empire" championing peace and democracy in a rambling statement issued by his lawyers Wednesday before his ...

A man who attacked Pope John Paul II in 1981 was escorted from the Turkish town of Iznik on Thursday ahead of Pope Leo XIV's ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The man who tried to kill former Pope John Paul II 33 years ago showed up at the Vatican on Saturday to put white roses on his tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis.

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was escorted from the Turkish town of Iznik ahead of Pope Leo ...

Pope John Paul II greets Mehmet Ali Agca at Rebibbia prison in 1983 in Rome, two years after Agca attempted to kill the pope in St Peter's Square - Copyright AFP ...

Mehmet Ali Agca fired several shots at Pope John Paul II in the in 1981 In a December 1983 file photo provided by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II meets Mehmet Ali Agca, in ...