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Mehmet Ali Ağca

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Mehmet Ali Ağca (Turkish pronunciation: [mehˈmet ɑˈli ˈɑːdʒɑ]; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish hitman and former member of the Grey Wolves. He murdered the leftist journalist Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979 and was imprisoned. He escaped from prison and travelled illegally to Vatican City on 13 May 1981 to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmet Ali Ağca has received more than 2,148,412 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Mehmet Ali Ağca is the 42nd most popular extremist (down from 30th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 278th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Extremist.

Mehmet Ali Ağca is most famous for shooting Pope John Paul II in 1981.

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  • 67.90

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mehmet Ali Ağca ranks 42 out of 283. Before him are H. H. Holmes, Jim Jones, Tommaso Buscetta, Peter Kürten, Joseph Kony, and William Kemmler. After him are Fritz Haarmann, Gudrun Ensslin, Madame de Brinvilliers, Timothy McVeigh, George Jung, and Karl Denke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Mehmet Ali Ağca ranks 30. Before him are Tim Robbins, Jamal Khashoggi, Wong Kar-wai, Lyudmila Putina, Keith Haring, and Hugo Sánchez. After him are Ellen DeGeneres, Boris Tadić, Alar Karis, Droupadi Murmu, Chris Columbus, and Angela Bassett.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mehmet Ali Ağca ranks 301 out of 1,347. Before him are Aziz Nesin (1915), Ayşe Sultan (1541), Theodora (815), David of Trebizond (1408), Theodoret (393), and İbrahim Tatlıses (1952). After him are Sostratus of Cnidus (-290), Onesimus (1), Nectarios of Aegina (1846), Şehzade Mehmed (1605), Nicephorus Gregoras (1295), and Gennadius Scholarius (1400).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Türkiye

Among extremists born in Türkiye, Mehmet Ali Ağca ranks 3. Before him are Herostratus (-301), and Abdullah Öcalan (1949). After him are Abdullah Çatlı (1956).

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