Italy pardons <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Ali_Ağca" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mehmet Ali Ağca">Mehmet Ali Ağca</a>, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" id="mwASc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> in 1981.<sup about="#mwt101" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_13#cite_note-18" id="mwASg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASk">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt98" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFStanley2000">Stanley, Alessandra (14 June 2000). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/14/world/italians-grant-pardon-to-turk-who-shot-pope.html" id="mwB3o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Italians Grant Pardon to Turk Who Shot Pope (Published 2000)"</a>. <i id="mwB3s">The New York Times</i>.</cite><span about="#mwt98" class="Z3988" id="mwB3w" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Italians+Grant+Pardon+to+Turk+Who+Shot+Pope+%28Published+2000%29&amp;rft.date=2000-06-14&amp;rft.aulast=Stanley&amp;rft.aufirst=Alessandra&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2000%2F06%2F14%2Fworld%2Fitalians-grant-pardon-to-turk-who-shot-pope.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+13"></span></span>