ISTANBUL, Turkey — Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, has not made required daily check-ins with the Istanbul police since his release from a Turkish prison ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pope John Paul II blessed followers a few seconds before being shot and seriously wounded May 13, 1981 at Saint Peter’s square by Turkish extremist Mehmet ...

The late Pope John Paul II’s personal secretary, Archbishop Stansilaw Dziwisz of Krakow, said this week he accepts the decision by the Turkish courts to release from prison Ali Agca, the man who ...

Would-be papal assassin Mehmet Ali Agca has been released from prison in Turkey. (Note to World: Bad idea.) He’s got big plans. He wants several million dollars to tell his story. He wants to visit ...

Prosecutors decided Monday that the man who shot Pope John Paul II must stay in prison until 2010, the Anatolia news agency reported. Mehmet Ali Agca was returned Friday to the high-security Kartal ...

Outrage has greeted plans by Pope John Paul II’s would-be assassin to sign multi-million-dollar book and film deals after his release from prison this month. But in a handwritten letter sent to The ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A military hospital pronounced the Turk who shot Pope John Paul II unfit for military service, ending days of speculation over whether 48-year-old Mehmet Ali Agca would be forced to ...

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.

It's a dream!" declared Mehmet Ali Agca. With Pope John Paul II's urging, Italy's president had finally pardoned the prematurely aging Turk for the near-fatal shooting of the pontiff in 1981. A few ...

A court has approved the release from prison of the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, saying he completed his sentence for crimes he committed in Turkey, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was detained by authorities Friday after an appeals court overturned a decision to free Turkey’s most notorious criminal.