The triggerman was apprehended almost immediately。 He was identified as Mehmet Ali Agca， a Turkish terrorist。 Agca had publicly vowed to kill the pope during the potiffs 1979 visit to Turkey。
Turkey, the United States and the European Union have formally labeled the PKK aterrorist organization and Turkish President Abdullah Gul had harsh words after the group's latest violence.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing aTurkish security guard in what the White House described as aterrorist attack.
Germany, which has a large Turkish community, reported 15 separatist terrorist attacks for 2007, with 14 claimed by the Kongra-Gel (formerly the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK).