Pope gunman released from Turkish prison

Ankara: Television stations report that the Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison on Monday after completing his sentence for crimes committed in Turkey.

Mehmet Ali Agca spent more than 29 years in prison. His lawyer Gokay Gultekin says he will be taken to a military facility and then to a hospital to renew a 2006 military hospital report which said he is not fit for obligatory military service because of "severe anti-social personality disorder."

There have been long-standing questions about Agca's mental health based on his frequent outbursts and claims that he was the Messiah.