14 Şubat 2024 Çarşamba

"Beat & Release": Pope's Would-be 1981 Assassin Still Quite a Troublemaker, in Istanbul

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 February 2024)
















Father forgave him for he knew not "what" he did....
but he's never stopped doing "it". 


Mehmet Ali Ağca, infamously known for the 1979 assassination of 
Milliyet Newspaper's chief editor Abdi İpekçi and for the attempted
assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, is now on trial for 
intimidation, based on a complaint from Gökhan Soylu, a vegetable 
commission agent at the fruit and vegetable wholesale market in 
Bayrampaşa, Istanbul.  

According to the complaint, lodged against Ağca,, who changed his
surname to "Aslan", and four others, Soylu explained that Muhittin 
Erdal, with whom Soylu was engaged in business, owed him money.  
Soylu purchased a house owned by Erdal's nephew in Bahçelieveler 
but Mehmet Ali Ağca threatened Soylu and had the house turned over 
to himself, through intimidation.  

At the hearing yesterday in court in Bakırköy, witness Ahmet Gülmedi,
who works with Soylu, stated that "they summoned us to the office of
Mehmet Ali Ağca in Bakırköy.  Ağca pounded on his desk and said
'You're rich! You have a BMW! These fellows are poor, you'll give them
the flat.  Otherwise, we'll see what happens.  You have children and we 
know where you live and when you go to an from work.'"  (!)

"Soylu was scared by this outburst and a few days later he signed the 
flat over to Ağca, who then said to us 'Don't say anything to anyone
about this. Disappear.'  He also took a 1,300,000 TL (about $42,000)
check from us."

The court issued a warrant for fugitive suspect Ahmet Çetin and 
postponed the trial until Çetin is apprehended. 

Still has "that look" in his eyes :(






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