Pope gunman Mehmet Ali Agca freed and claims world to end this century 2014

Pope gunman Mehmet Ali Agca freed and claims world to end this century

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981, proclaimed the world will end this century as he was released from prison in Turkey

Agca has declared himself to be the second Messiah and harbinger of humanity's doom.

In a typically bizarre statement distributed on his release from a high-security prison near Ankara he said: "I proclaim the end of the world. All the world will be destroyed in this century. Every human being will die in this century.

"The Gospel is full of mistakes. I will write the perfect Gospel."

The 52-year-old Turk signed his name as "The Christ eternal" on the document which was attached to a picture of him shaking hands with John Paul II when they met 26 years ago to be reconciled.

He waved as he left the prison in a convoy of security vehicles en route to a military hospital to be assessed for compulsory military service.

A 2006 Turkish military hospital report diagnosed Agca as unfit for military service because of a "severe anti-social personality disorder".
Agca has, in the past, offered to team up with Dan Brown, the best-selling religious conspiracy writer to produce a novel called The Vatican's Code.
He has also volunteered to go to Afghanistan to kill Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader.
The late Pope visited Agca in his Italian jail in 1983 and forgave him for the attack, which had left the Pontiff seriously wounded.
Agca shot Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, as the Pontiff rode in an open car in St Peter's Square. The Pope was hit in the stomach, left hand and right arm, but the bullets missed his vital organs.
The motive for his attack has always remained unclear and has never been linked to Islamic religious or political motives.
After being arrested, Agca insisted that he had acted alone but later suggested the Bulgaria and the Soviet Union's KGB were behind the attack.
He dropped the allegations after claiming that the attack was part of a divine plan in his self-proclaimed role as a second Messiah.
In his memoir Memory and Identity, John Paul II wrote that he was convinced that the attempted assassination was planned and commissioned.
Agca has promised to answer questions about the attack after his release and a journey to Istanbul.
"We are not running away from the media, he may speak in a few days," said Gokay Gultekin, his lawyer.
Agca has said he is beginning to consider book, film and television documentary offers.
He served 19 years in an Italian prison for shooting the Pope and was then transferred to spend another 10 years in Turkey for the earlier murder of a newspaper editor.