SOCIOLOGICAL - MASONIC SOCIETY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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AR 1952
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SUBJECT SociologicaJ - Masonic society INFORMATION 1952
CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTED
CENTRALS NTELLIGENCEA.GENCY T
REPOR T NO.
INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Turkey
DATE OF
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Istanbul
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 - 29 Aug 1952
LANGUAGE Turkish
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SOURCE
Buyuk Dose.
DATE DIST. a4 Feb 195S.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EXPOSE OF TURKISH MASONS
On 2 August 1952, the Istanbul daily newspaper Buvuk DRU ffenaticaliy pro-
Moslem and anti-Masonic7 began a series o. articles entitled "Victory of Detec-
tive X I" which purported to be an expose of whe.t it termed the irreligious,
Jewish-controlled, Turkish Masonic Society. It was indicated that the series of
articles would be continued.
For the most part, the series coacisted of photostats and texts -- either
in whole oz in part -- of various allegedly secret documents of the organization
which, according to the paper, clearly proved that Masonry is hostile to all re-
ligions except the Jewish religion and that the Turkish Masonic Society is di-
rected from abroad in aims not compatible with national interests. The newspaper
declared that a group of "idealist youths" armed with photographic equipment
had manages to obtain entrance, in a legal manner, into the society's head-
quarters on the fourth floor of the Ayla Apartments in the Taksim section of
Istanbul, where they had photographed every document, subsequently delivering
them to B uk Dom.
The newspaper also published the names, addresses, and occupations of
individuals whom it identified as the members of the Turkish Masonic Society.
The newspaper did not make it clear whether this list of names constituted only
the. Masons in Istanbul or those in all of Turkey. However, judging from the
addresses given, the list refers only to those in Istanbul. Although the paper
continually refers to the figure 900, the list contains only 818 names; the
consecutive numbering from one to 900 contained certain gaps, for example, from
309 to 400. The newspaper mentioned that all Masonic lodges in Turkey are
subordinate to that in Istanbul.
On 23 August, Buyuk Dogu published, as part ...P the series, a photostat of
a mortgage covering a loan to the Masonic Society of 100,000 lira by two members,
Frof M. Keaal Oka and Cavil Ipekci.
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On 29/ugust,'tte;newspaper published a facsimile of a letter it had received
from Vice Admiral Sadik Altincan, Commander of Naval Forces, in which Altincan
pointed out that the membership list had included the names of several naval
officers,'and requested certified copies of all documents proving such member-
ship to be used in legal proceedings against those officers, since members or
the ermod forces were forbidden to join such organizations without prior per-
mission and since investigations had indicated that the officers had failed to
obtain such permission.
On 26 August, Bu~vuk Dogu published, in addition to the regular install-
ment of its aeries, an open letter addressed to the Istanbul Public Prosecutor,
demanding that the Turkish Masonic Society, including all centers, branches,
and lodges; be closed immediately and its property seized and turned over to
public institutions. The writer of the letter claimed that articles in the
society's organ as well as the current Buyuk Dogu expose clearly proved that
the existence and activities of the society violated provisions of the Law on
Societies, and that the public prosecutor's office therefore had no alterna-
tive but to. take legal steps against the society.
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