"Turks decry Ali Agca’s release as “day of shame”
by Mavi Zambak
For many citizens he is “an old wolf disguised as a lamb”, a symbol of one the country’s more violent eras. His release is the fruit of urging by ultra-nationalist spheres and secret services.
Ankara (AsiaNews) – Now that the four days dedicated to the religious Feast of Sacrifice are over, Turkish television stations and newspapers have gone all out to cover what at first seemed to be a news item of little importance: the release of Mehmet Alì Agca, born on 9 January 1958 in Yesiltepe, in Turckey, Malatya province, on the border with Kurdistan, notorious in Italy and the rest of the world as the perpetrator of the attempted murder of Pope John Paul II in 1981."
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