Popular authors' reasons to write conspiratorial accounts about Jews in Turkey

What is it about?

This article explores contemporary anti-Semitism in Turkey by scrutinizing conspiracy theories about a crypto-Judaic society called Dönme. It examines the influence of the paranoid style in Turkish politics, known as the Sèvres syndrome, on the popular conspiracy theories with anti-Semitic themes. The research relies on an analysis of the content of conspiracy accounts and interviews with their authors. It concludes that the influence of the Sèvres syndrome is imperative to understand the rationale of anti-Semitic conspiracy rhetoric in Turkey.

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Why is it important?

This is the first and only research to date (2017) that relies on interviews with popular conspiracy theory authors. Given the escalating importance of conspiracy rhetoric nowadays, it is a very timely intervention.

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