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Thursday, January 12, 2006

BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkish press outrage at Agca release

"Turkish press outrage at Agca release
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Newspapers in Turkey are angry at the release from jail in Istanbul of Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

But their outrage is directed at what they see as leniency towards Agca over another of his crimes - the 1979 murder of the editor-in-chief of the Milliyet newspaper, Abdi Ipekci.

A Milliyet commentary says Agca's release is intended to 'intimidate the press', while another paper says Abdi Ipekci has been 'killed for a second time'."

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