Mehmet Ali Ağca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mehmet Ali Ağca

Turkish assassin

Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1958

Place of Birth: Hekimhan, Turkey

Profession: mercenary, political activist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Mehmet Ali Agca (Turkish pronunciation: [meh'met a'li 'a?d?a]; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish assassin and Grey Wolves member who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi Ipekçi on 1 February 1979, and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.
After serving 19 years of imprisonment in Italy where he was visited by the Pope, he was deported to Turkey, where he served a ten-year sentence.
In 2007, he converted to Roman Catholicism and was released from jail on 18 January 2010.
Agca has described himself as a mercenary with no political orientation, although he is known to have been a member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves organization and the state-sponsored Counter-Guerrilla.On 27 December 2014, 33 years after his crime, Mehmet Ali Agca publicly arrived at the Vatican to lay white roses on the recently canonized John Paul II's tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis – a request that was denied.