The assassin was one Mehmet Ali Agca, a longtime member of the Gray Wolves. zu töten - und saß fast 30 Jahre im Gefängnis: Nun ist Mehmet Ali Agca wieder frei. Papst-Attentäter Mehmet Ali Agca ist nach fast drei Jahrzehnten in Haft aus dem Gefängnis in der Türkei entlassen worden. Zeugen zufolge sollen ihm einige Soldaten, die den Grauen Wölfen nahe standen (Bünyamin Yilmaz), eine Waffe gegeben und bei der Flucht geholfen haben. I presenti vanno nel panico mentre il Santo Padre cade a terra con la tunica ricoperta di sangue, l’attentatore scappa approfittando della confusione e si libera della pistola gettandola sotto ad un camion. Nevertheless, the Grey Wolves/MHP will probably be content with the coalition, as long as they have some kind of conflict they can cheerlead, whether that is in Karabakh, some Greek islands, or anywhere else. Il 13 maggio del 1981, in una piazza San Pietro gremita di pellegrini festanti per l’arrivo del Papa, Mehmet Ali Agca si fa largo tra la folla esce dalla tasca una 9mm e fa fuoco quattro volte contro Giovanni Paolo II. Other members helped Mr. Agca escape from prison. Newer Post A flood of reactions to Hollywood’s 'Noah' We were in the water in the cellar, above us were wooden boards. seine Rettung Maria, der Mutter Jesu, zu und bedankte sich später mit einer Wallfahrt nach Fátima. Hear him read his comic memoir Pleasant Hell in audiobook format. Il sessantaduenne vive in un piccolo appartamento di un sobborgo di Istanbul, in Turchia.. L’uomo che attentò Giovanni Paolo II al Mirror: ‘Il Papa era come un fratello’ Orthodox Christians are the Wolves’ preferred prey. nieder. Papst-Attentäter Mehmet Ali Agca ist nach fast drei Jahrzehnten in Haft aus dem Gefängnis in der Türkei entlassen worden. Then aged 23, Agca shot the Pope twice at close range in St Peter's Square, with one bullet passing through John Paul's abdomen and another narrowly missing his heart. As you point out, their Turkish supremacist ideology tends to make any kind of collaboration with political Islam very difficult. Er ermordete am 1. The lawyer Halil Güllüoglu followed the Maras massacre case. Because in U S of A, any understanding of religious complication is just too difficult. Als Mehmet Ali Agca vor vier Jahren aufgrund einer Fehlberechnung seiner Haftzeit in der Türkei für einige Tage auf freien Fuß kam, fragte er seinen Anwalt, ob er einmal ein Handy sehen könne. Nach fast drei Jahrzehnten in Haft ist der Papst-Attentäter Mehmet Ali Agca wieder frei. Britain and France, now joined by the US, were as vengeful toward the former Empire as they had been lenient during its bloody final years. (Think of U.S. coverage of recent events in Brazil: U.S. press just can’t figure out what has gone wrong there lately.). Il Papa è diventato come un fratello per me. Papst Franziskus wird dort Ende November erwartet. They’re adapting quickly, and even have their own fierce Wiki defenders.”. To me, the key issue — and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me — is the tens of thousands of excess “deaths from despair,” as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. Er warnte den Papst davor, im November in die Türkei zu reisen. Mehmet Ali Agca hat versucht, Papst Johannes Paul II. Aufsehen erregte der Papst, als er dem Attentäter schon auf dem Krankenbett in der Gemelli-Klinik vergab und ihn zwei Jahre nach der Genesung im Gefängnis besuchte. Everyone knows that such a big massacre cannot be carried out without state involvement. There I met a nurse I knew…When she saw me, she was surprised: ‘Seyho, where have you come from? Februar 2013 „Il Vaticano smonta le rivelazioni di Ali Agca sull attentato di Givoanni Paolo II“). Papst-Attentäter am Grab von Johannes Paul II. This leads to a lot of more or less lone-wolf killings (as it were), as when a soldier who was a member of the Gray Wolves killed a fellow soldier for being an Armenian a few years ago. This is a perennial question with such groups everywhere: how far are such attacks are motivated by genuine religious disagreement on doctrinal issues and how far by cultural differences. Mehmet Ali Ağca (* 9. And we’ll never know how much daily violence this massive fascist gang inflicts. Which is odd, because this group is not trying to hide, or pretending to be harmless. The Muslim Brothers and Sunni political islam are part of that, because they enable the Turks to capture, discipline and organise Muslim communities elsewhere in the world to support their objectives. (Again, the international echoes are clear enough; suffice to say that these guys were the most dangerous, formidable demographic in a few generations, perhaps since the emergence of the Napoleonic elite.) zu töten. ; siehe auch 'Tempi', 1. Blaming Bulgaria rather than the obvious suspects, the Gray Wolves to which this thug Ali Agca had been murderously loyal all his life, was especially bizarre since there was an obvious sectarian motive: the Gray Wolves hate Christians, as they hate all other minorities, ethnic or religious, and make a point of staging provocations at all occasions when the remnants of what was once a huge Christian minority dare to show themselves in public. That was declined as was a fresh request for an audience this weekend in Rome. They hardly bothered to hide their collusion in the escape. Gary Brecher is the nom de guerre-nerd of John Dolan. It depends whether you see “fascist” as a description of a political programme, or just a term of abuse. We were eight people in the cellar; they did not see us and left.”(EZÖ/TK/AG). Although the Turkish state has been/somewhat still is secular to a first order approximation, in practice it has been willing to co-opt conservative forces especially to enforce its will on the Kurds. There is an event called the Dersim Rebellion, in which Alevi, whether Turkish-speaking or Kurdish-speaking, revolted in the late 1930s. They guessed wrong, but not before they managed to exterminate the harmless Armenians who had recently been patronized as Turkey’s “model minority” for their docility. Nun behauptet er in seinem Buch, der iranische Revolutionsführer Chomeini habe ihn dazu angestiftet. “I defy anyone to find a more successful, out-front, no-kidding, massive, effective, ruthless fascist organization anywhere in the world. They sacked everything. All accounts agree that the massacre not only happened with state collusion but state encouragement. The campaign against them built up for weeks, as pogroms usually do, with the unpredictable pace partly a result of working with unstable, violent mobs but also part of a strategy to terrorize the victims, who never know when things will go from bad (very bad) to even-worse. schoss. Raggiunto dal Mirror, il terrorista Ali Agca che cercò di uccidere Giovanni Paolo II racconta come quell’episodio ha cambiato la sua vita. I can’t imagine this group finding any friends among e.g. Klicken Sie auf den Button, spielen wir den Hinweis auf dem anderen Gerät aus und Sie können SPIEGEL+ weiter nutzen. Wer heuerte den Schützen Ali Agca an? Just as the AfD opposes integration, so do the Turkish nationalists oppose integration. They were massacred with impunity in Ottoman pogroms. Next to their numbers, whatever’s in Turkey is “small potatoes” (as memorably phrased by Hyman Roth in Godfather 2). Those who were killed in 1978 were not only Alevi, but Kurds — and the Turkish state, which embraced Wilsonian ethnic nationality with a vengeance, a terrible vengeance, hates Kurds simply for being Kurds. In the morning I went to Maras State Hospital. This would not be the first time that the interests of what you could call the NATO Deep State aligned all too perfectly with the more gullible pockets of the Left. Nun überrascht der Attentäter mit einem Besuch an dessen Grab. November 1979 aus dem Militärgefängnis Maltepe in Istanbul fliehen. Januar 2006. Er erklärte, was an dem Buch überprüfbar sei, habe sich als falsch herausgestellt.[9]. I struggle to come up with any other reason that the Gray Wolves get so little attention. Let me briefly explain them. Here are a few highlights from their long, successful career: In 1978, Gray Wolves started pogroms against Alevi Kurds in Maras (also known as Kahramanmaras) in South-Central Anatolia. So it has a soft power policy as well, making use of whatever comes to hand. Drei Kugeln trafen den Papst, eine davon verletzte ihn schwer. The Other America: The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA, “Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions, How Mitch McConnell Flouts the Will of the American People, Nick Corbishley: Bankruptcy Looms As Cash-Starved UK Local Councils’ High-Risk Real Estate Bets Sour, Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic, The War Nerd: Gray Wolves — The Fascists Nobody Wants To Talk About, A Letter from Nanea to Yves Smith About CalPERS’ Strange $1.5 Billion Deal with LongRange Capital, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india. Während zwei Kugeln den linken Zeigefinger[1] zertrümmerten und einen Streifschuss am rechten Unterarm verursachten, zerstörte die dritte Kugel mehrere Dünndarmschlingen und trat schließlich knapp neben der Wirbelsäule wieder aus. 33 Jahre nach dem Anschlag bittet er nun in einem offenen Brief um ein Treffen mit dessen Nachfolger in der Türkei. And then there are the young men who join the Gray Wolves. If you interviewed a random Grey Wolf would he (or she) be able to describe why the Alevi aren’t considered Muslims? Ein Mann aus dem engsten Umkreis von Johannes Paul II. Posted with THE EXILED. "A thousand thanks holiness," he said in Italian. A few years ago the Housing Minister in Sweden (a member of the Green party, from a Turkish family) resigned after some pictures of him surfaced at a dinner with a bunch of Gray Wolves members. Nach seiner Haftentlassung will er sich in Polen niederlassen, erklärte sein Anwalt. [7], Nach seiner Entlassung aus türkischer Haft veröffentlichte Mehmet Ali Ağca seine Memoiren in italienischer Sprache mit dem Titel Mi avevano promesso il paradiso („Sie hatten mir das Paradies versprochen“). Violence by the Gray Wolves is a constant in Turkey, usually unreported — especially now that Erdogan’s party has imprisoned thousands of journalists and intellectuals, and terrorized the rest into quietism or collusion. Nevertheless, since they are in the trenches with Erdogan, they are at least on the same side as Sunni Islamists on many fronts. Subscribe to the Radio War Nerd podcast & newsletter! At any rate, no one cared to remember or notice the extermination of the Armenians, but the winners at Versailles were typically vengeful against the former Ottoman Empire — not by any means for wiping out the Armenians, but for being German allies, and losing. Dafür soll es jetzt erstmals einen Beweis geben. They’re not shy about it, and it’s not just talk. David and PlutoniumKun: I’m not sure that I agree completely with David here. The target of the Gray Wolves in Maras was a double minority: Alevi Kurds. He initially testified that he had acted alone but later claimed the Bulgarian and Soviet secret services had orchestrated the attempted murder because of the Polish Pope's anti-communist stance. You’d think all the fascist-hunters would have sniffed it out by now, but it goes right by them as if these guys were invisible. Adesso, 39 anni dopo, l’ex terrorista è un uomo profondamente cambiato. Es geht um den Verkauf millionenschwerer Film- und Buchrechte. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Gazantiep is a key city for right-wing Turkish nationalists, a city dominated not just by people who are ethnically Turkish but who identify as rightwing Turks of the most intensely nationalist kind. Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, is escorted into court in Istanbul, Turkey, in this photo from 2000. The evolution of the Gray Wolves is a classic fascist Genesis story, and the behavior of its hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of supporters is classic fascist violence. The parallel is closer to Indonesian Islamists in 1965 than the SA in 1930s Germany, but so many people have trouble taking any fascism clearly unless it can be soldered to 1930s Germany that I may as well make the analogy for, as they say in the academic biz, heuristic purposes. Darin gibt er an, den Mordauftrag von Ajatollah Chomeini persönlich erhalten zu haben. Nachdem er im Juli 1981 zu einer Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt worden war, amnestierte ihn am 13. In quella occasione l’attentatore ha chiesto perdono per quello che aveva fatto e Giovanni Paolo II gliel’ha concesso. I hate to speculate, because the range of possible answers all boils down to cowardice, conformity, and the odd Euro-centrism one finds in the strangest places. Zuvor organisierte er in Ankara und Istanbul zusammen mit seinem Weggefährten Abdullah Çatlı Schießereien und Straßenkämpfe gegen links- und kemalistisch orientierte Studenten. 1979 ermordete er den Journalisten Abdi İpekçi (Chef der türkischen Zeitung Milliyet). This was meant to be a reply to PK’s original comment. Papst-Attentäter Agca aus der Haft entlassen. He served nearly three decades in prisons in Italy and Turkey. 2006 wurde ihm durch erneute Untersuchungen die Untauglichkeit als Soldat durch eine „fortgeschrittene anti-soziale Persönlichkeitsstörung“ attestiert.[4]. Januar 2006 aufgehoben und Ağca erneut verhaftet. Mehmet Ali Agca ist ein türkischer Rechtsextremist und mehrfacher Mörder. For a few years there was some doubt whether even Anatolia would remain a Turkish state. Violence by these men against minorities has never stopped, but it hit its peak — more like the highest peak in a mountain-range of a graph — in 1978, before the Anglosphere had any handle on sectarian violence in the Middle East. That’s why Gazantiep keeps making the news as a nice convenient safe house for IS and their Turkish allies, some of whom killed 57 Kurds at a wedding in 2016. Unser Autor hat den Agenten mit der Nummer 10682 in Warschau getroffen. The current chant of the Wolves many, many supporters is “My heart is Turkish and my soul is Muslim!” You must be both: ethnically Turkish and orthodox, Sunni Muslim as well. Still others prepared a false passport for him. Often impressive individuals, but completely ruthless and immensely fond of violence. So the attacks on the Alevi aren’t mere religious signifiers. "This is a miracle that goes on. Required fields are marked *. Remember, Turkey is NATO — very, very NATO. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). Am 13. How did coronavirus spread from a hotel surface to Adelaide's northern suburbs? The Turkish man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II has laid flowers at the late pontiff's tomb in the Vatican. Odd, because Turkey is European enough to be the cornerstone of NATO. You can’t expect a perfect coherence of course, any more than you would if it were a western power doing the same thing, but it’s all tending in the same general direction. But it’s a statistical certainty that somewhere along the long line from greenlighting an attack like this and sending red-hot ball bearings splattering into the bodies of teenagers with peace banners, many of the men involved were members in good standing of the good ol’ Wolves. The details of the massacre are very typical, sickening but not unusual: Seyho Demir: “The Maras Police Chief at the time was Abdülkadir Aksu, Minister of the Interior in the last AKP government. Hence my frustration with the news flow — currently in my view the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the other by out-of-power liberals and their allies in the State and in the press — a news flow that constantly forces me to focus on matters that I regard as of secondary importance to the excess deaths. Buy his book The War Nerd Iliad. But it’s hard to keep players and alliances straight. schwelt der Streit zwischen dem Vatikan und Muslimen weiter - allen Entschuldigungen zum Trotz. In fact, it’s very closely related to the phenomenon of not noticing, or trying very hard not to notice, the sectarian ultra-violence of the Syrian “rebels.” But this time, since Turkey is a NATO ally, it’s the violence of the state and its fascist proxies that is ignored. Die WELT als ePaper: Die vollständige Ausgabe steht Ihnen bereits am Vorabend zur Verfügung – so sind Sie immer hochaktuell informiert. I think the framing here is a bit questionable. Weitere Informationen: http://epaper.welt.de, Der Kurz-Link dieses Artikels lautet: https://www.welt.de/. All of which led to the organisation being disbanded last month, to predictable howls of “Islamophobia” from Erdogan, whom they seem to revere as their leader. There’s something grotesquely comic about this. The boards were burning and falling on top of us. Ağca stand den Grauen Wölfen nahe. Er saß fast 30 Jahre im Gefängnis, am Montag soll Mehmet Ali Agca frei kommen - und hat schon einen ersten Termin: Das türkische Militär will den Papst-Attentäter mustern lassen. Topless feminist activist grabs baby Jesus statue in St Peter's Square. Alevi Muslims are often considered heretics by Salafists and other Sunni fundamentalists. Many were, in fact, promoted, and hold high positions in Erdogan’s government today. Thanks for this question, which I have as well. He was, for Cold-War purposes, smeared as a Bulgarian agent. Zuvor hatte er unter anderem schon den KGB verantwortlich gemacht - und sich selbst als "Messias" bezeichnet. Das Verschwinden der Schülerin Mirella Gregori im Jahr 1983 sei eng mit dem der Jugendlichen Emanuela Orlandi in Rom und dem des sowjetischen Journalisten Oleg Bitow in Venedig verbunden. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered. Murad Sezer / AP file April 4, 2005, 3:44 PM UTC [2] In den 2013 veröffentlichten Memoiren von Ağca gab dieser an, vom iranischen Ajatollah Chomeini persönlich mit den Worten „Du musst den Papst im Namen Allahs töten“ beauftragt worden zu sein. So the Kurdish Alevi of Maras were a natural target twice-over. Januar 1958 in Hekimhan, Malatya) ist ein türkischer Rechtsextremist. I sono molto contento che non è morto. They seem to fulfil the function of unofficial militia for the political power, which you also find in wholly secular countries. Thanks, that explanation does make sense – describing religion as a ‘cultural marker’ is a good way of looking at it. That’s the pattern here: the Gray Wolves as the street-fighting wing of the state. Quando è morto ho provato il dolore della perdita di un fratello o del mio migliore amico”. 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He had a track record of killing leftists and other enemies on behalf of the “Idealists” (seriously, that’s what the Wolves call themselves): “The weapon used in the Feb. 1, 1979, murder of a Turkish newspaper editor, Abdi Ipekci, for which Mr. Agca was convicted, was supplied by a member of the Idealist Clubs, according to the Turkish authorities. Mehmet Ali Agca told police he felt he needed to make the gesture, Italian media report. Agca announced his conversion in a … Papst-Attentäter bekennt sich wieder zum Islam, Papst-Attentäter nennt Ajatollah Chomeini als Drahtzieher, https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehmet_Ali_Ağca&oldid=199455217, „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“, türkischer Rechtsextremist und Papstattentäter. Ali Agca, invece, ha passato 29 anni in carcere per tentato omicidio. Ataturk was a typical elite young officer of the early 20th c. Those were very dangerous people, those young officers. For a while, that state was professedly secular, but since it had already killed or driven out most religious minorities, the monoethnic state became, under the AK party, avowedly mono-sectarian as well. Just check on some Irish history, we’ve a long history of extremist paramilitary groups covering the full spectrum from left to quasi fascist, with most shades in between represented. Ağca verübte das Attentat auf Johannes Paul II. Ağca wurde nicht zum türkischen Wehrdienst eingezogen, dem er sich in den 1970er Jahren entzogen hatte. Seen in this context, collaboration with the Grey Wolves – which have a mixed secular/religious membership, and have been willing to bat for the state when the chips were down – is not particularly out of character for the nominally secular state. Some of the bravest people on earth, languishing in the Turkish state’s prisons or buried in unmarked graves, are proudly Turkish by ancestry. They’re adapting quickly, and even have their own fierce Wiki defenders. Im Mai 1981 schoss der Türke Mehmet Ali Agca auf Papst Johannes Paul II. They don’t get noticed because they’re not European, maybe? Ataturk formed a nucleus of former officers from the Great War. Raggiunto ad Istanbul dal ‘Mirror‘, Mehmet Ali Agca ricorda l’attentato ed oggi è convinto che “E’ stato destino. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. But that state, our NATO ally, supports a whole madhouse of Arab and Turkmen jihadis as well as its own stable of disposable Gray Wolves assassins, so it may never be clear whether it was the Wolves, precisely, who pressed the detonators. The history is that the Alevi–and estimates go from 15 to 25 million in the population of Turkey of, let’s say, 80 million. E’ stato destino che sopravvivesse. Diese Aussage wurde jedoch bestritten. Dort war er wegen des Mordes an İpekçi in Abwesenheit zum Tode verurteilt worden. Gray Wolves is a classic fascist Genesis story, and the behavior of its hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of supporters is classic fascist violence. Ağca brachte das Attentat bei einer Gerichtsverhandlung 1985 mit Fátima in Verbindung und bezeichnete sich selbst als „wiedergeborenen Christus“. Do you think that Americans know who the Greek Orthodox are, let alone Alevi? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india, The assassin of Gandhi (yes, that one) is publicly lionized: Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who nearly assassinated Pope John Paul II in May 1981, says he has converted to Catholicism. I am also very hopeful that the continuing destruction of both party establishments will open the space for voices supporting programs similar to those I have listed; let’s call such voices “the left.” Volatility creates opportunity, especially if the Democrat establishment, which puts markets first and opposes all such programs, isn’t allowed to get back into the saddle. Tagged: Ansa, John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Ağca, The Independent, Vatican Radio, Der Spiegel. You’d be pushed to find any real religious significance in all this, and I think the same applies to the Grey Wolves: their essential motivation is ethnic (especially anti-Armenian and anti-Kurd), and for them religion is essentially a cultural badge. I think that is enough," Francis's spokesman, Federico Lombardi, told La Republica. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. Mehmet Ali Ağca è stato un militante nell'organizzazione terroristica di estrema destra denominata "Lupi grigi". Vor mehr als 30 Jahren schoss er auf Papst Johannes Paul II. Februar 1979 den türkischen Journalisten Abdi İpekçi und verübte am 13. zu töten. Perhaps someone in the commentariat with more knowledge of Turkey can enlighten me, but I’ve always been puzzled by the Grey Wolves position somewhere between nationalist secularism and Sunni Islam. We may never know how many Kurds are murdered daily in the southeast of Anatolia, because no one who matters, in the Turkish state or its many powerful allies in the West (e.g. Der Anschlag auf Johannes Paul II. Zwar versuchten unabhängige Quellen zu belegen, dass es unmöglich gewesen wäre, ohne Unterstützung des Militärs aus dem Militärgefängnis Maltepe zu fliehen, offizielle Anerkennung fand diese Theorie jedoch nicht.
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