On May 13 , 1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca , a Grey Wolves member , attempted on Pope John Paul II 's life in St. Peter 's Square . The masterminds were not identified and the organization 's role remains unclear . According to Daniel Pipes and Khalid Duran Grey Wolves appear to have been involved in the assassination attempt and write that Ağca " in his own confused way mixed Turkish nationalist sentiments with fundamentalist Islam . " However , Italian investigators could not establish his link to the Grey Wolves
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Pope John Paul II assassination attempt
Grey Wolves (organization)