Turkey’s major Cihan News Agency has quoted Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay as blaming “world powers and the Jewish Diaspora” for provoking massive anti-Erdogan protests in Turkey, going on to say that the international media is also involved in “the conspiracy.”
The statement apparently came at a Monday rally in Kinkkale Province, and was followed by a statement from a Turkish Jewish organization expressing concern that the comments could lead to reprisals against the nation’s Jewish minority.
Atalay’s office has since issued a statement on the matter, part retraction and part denial, saying that in the speech nothing he said was intended to “offend Jewish citizens of Turkey or Jewish communities around the world.”
The Erdogan government has repeatedly sought to shift the blame for anti-government protests around to different targets, though it has regularly claimed a grand conspiracy against the “way of Great Turkey” in speeches as orchestrating the whole matter.
Every thing that Turkish people are demanding are the Marsian faults.., it is them.., among others.., that have manipulated the people's mind about democracy.., we the Turkish government, in the other hand just want to establish the sharia law which have nothing to do with democracy but all about dictatorial system.., like in Saudi Arabia.., or what our friends in Egypt or Libya are doing.., Islamization is the today fashion man.., democracy is a thing of the past man. So long the live of the living dictatorial man.
Besides the unrest itself, in addition anto Semitic outbursts by Turkishi leaders contribute to the huge drop in the number of tourists visiting Turkey.