'Mason Lodge was behind the death of Atatürk'

The founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was maliciously poisoned and left to die in a plot which was intensively supported by the Mason Lodge, according to Sabahattin Savcı, a former minister who served between 1977 and 1978.

A letter, penned by the former Minister of Forestry, Sabahattin Savcı, said that Turkish and foreign doctors slowly poisoned Atatürk over several months intentionally prescribing wrong drugs.

The letter also revealed that Atatürk's successor İsmet İnönü, the then Interior Minister Şükrü Kaya and Kasım Gülek, the then General Secretary of the Republican People's Party, or CHP, was actively involved in his killing.

“Mr. Yusuf says Hıfzı Oğuz admitted Ataturk was slowly poisoned by Kasım Gülek, İnönü and Şükrü Kaya through foreign and Turkish doctors. The motive for his death was particularly supported by the Mason lodges," he said in the letter whose recipient and date is unclear.

Sabahattin Savcı, an MP from National Salvation Party, or MSP, served in the 41th Turkish cabinet, known as the Second Nationalist Front.

His statement is based on what he heard during an intimate conversation from the former Diyarbakır deputy Yusuf Azizoğlu, the predecessor of Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, who acted as Health Minister in the 26. Turkish government, which was formed in the wake of the country's first coup in 1960.

In the letter, Savcı refers to the former CHP deputy Hıfzı Oğuz Bekata, who took the Internal Affairs office in 1962.