From Lufthansa to the CIA,Turkey's government has come up with some worrying conspiracy theories to elaborate Gezi ParkIt has to be said that when the Turkish government began to flail around for the "genuine reasons" behind the Gezi protests, their initial conspiracy theories lacked imagination – the CIA, or Europeans envious of their economic success,unspecified foreign forces in cahoots with terrorists, Twitter, and the "interest rate lobby",and, of course, or the international Jewish conspiracy. What would a search for a scapegoat be in Turkey (or indeed Greece) without our old friends the Elders of Zion?Since it was obviously inconceivable that the Turkish people themselves knowing they were living through a golden age of good governance,piety and profit – would ever engage to the streets, there must have been a plot.
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Source: theguardian.com