Pope gunman 'not fit for military service'
A Turkish military hospital today said the Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was not fit for obligatory military service, his lawyer said.
Mehmet Ali Agca was freed from prison last Thursday.
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Mehmet Ali Agca was freed from prison last Thursday.
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