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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
MEMRI: Islamist Turkish President Erdogan Says A 'Mastermind' Is Plotting Against Turkey; Antisemitic 'Documentary' Says Jews Have Been 'Mastermind' For Over 3,500 Years

MEMRI April 14, 2015 Special Dispatch No.6021

Islamist Turkish President Erdogan Says A 'Mastermind' Is Plotting Against
Turkey; Antisemitic 'Documentary' Says Jews Have Been 'Mastermind' For Over
3,500 Years
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8518.htm


Since October 2014, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has regularly
referred to the concept of a "Mastermind" (ust akil, "supra-intellect," in
Turkish) that, he says, is plotting against Turkey. This concept has been
applauded by the Islamist pro-AKP media. Erdogan's December 12, 2014 speech,
which focused on this "mastermind" concept, inspired the production of a
two-hour "documentary" by one of the leading Turkish television channels,
the pro-AKP A Haber. The film, titled "The Mastermind," first aired on March
15, 2015 and has been broadcast repeatedly since then; in addition, the
Turkish Islamist pro-AKP media are circulating the film on their own
websites.

According to this film, Jewish "domination of the world" goes back 3,500
years, to the days of Moses. The film presents three Jewish historical
figures who, it claims, shaped the Jews' hunger for power: the medieval
Spanish philosopher and Torah scholar Moses Maimonides, Charles Darwin (who
was not in fact a Jew), and German-American philosopher Leo Strauss.

The following is an overview of the film:


Erdogan: The Mastermind – "You Know Who It Is"

"The Mastermind" opens with images of the Star of David, and images of a
replica of the Temple in Jerusalem, and then an excerpt of President
Erdogan's December 12, 2014 speech is shown, with him saying: "I am
emphasizing this: Do not think that these are operations[1] that target me
personally. Do not think that these operations are against our government or
any [political] party. My friends, the target of these operations and
initiatives is Turkey, Turkey's existence, her unity, peace, and stability.
They are especially against Turkey's economy and its independence. As I have
said before, behind all these there is a Mastermind, which has now become
part of our national conversation. Some ask me, 'Who is this mastermind?'
and I say, 'It is for you to research this. And you do know what it is, you
know who it is.'"

"We Have To Look For The Mastermind In Jerusalem Where The Sons Of Israel
Live"

The narrator then begins: "The Mastermind, whose roots go back thousands of
years, who rules, burns, destroys, starves the world, creates wars,
organizes revolutions and coups, establishes states within states – this
'intellect' is not only Turkey's curse, but the curse of the entire world.
Who is this mastermind? The answer is hidden inside truths and facts that
can never be called conspiracy theories.

"This story begins in the very old days, 3,500 years ago, when Moses brought
his people out of Egypt to Jerusalem. The only guide he had was the Ten
Commandments. This is what was placed inside a wooden Ark which was later
brought into the Temple of Solomon.

"This is not myth but fact. And we have to look for the mastermind in
Jerusalem where the sons of Israel live."

As They Destroy The World, The Jews Are Searching For The Ark Of The
Covenant

Islamist pro-AKP political history professor Ramazan Kurtoglu says in the
film that as they destroy the entire world, the Jews are searching for this
Ark of Covenant that they lost. He ties the Iraq War to Jewish aspirations
to find the Ark, and claims that the first thing that the Americans did when
they entered Baghdad was to go Abu Ghuraib, at that time a museum and not
yet a prison, and collect all the ancient stone tablets and papyri of
ancient times.

The Jewish Faith Is A Political Philosophy, Not A Religion; Maimonides
Envisioned "A New World Order... Ruled By The Children Of Israel"

The film's narration says that the Jewish faith is a political philosophy
rather than a religion, and mentions three figures that "the Jews look up to
and follow" – naming "Rabbi Ben-Maimon (Maimonides), considered the greatest
of all Bible commentators, who lived in the Middle Ages" who he says
believed that "the Jews are the Masters, and all other people are to be
their slaves." The second, Charles Darwin, is "a Jew [sic], a biologist
[and] a scientist who is the architect of the theory of evolution. The third
is a German Jew, Leo Strauss, the father of American neo-conservatism."




Prof. Kurtoglu states, "Maimonides envisioned a new world order in which the
world would be ruled by the Children of Israel, God's chosen people."

The Jews Use Darwin's Theory To Assert That God Created Them – But Everyone
Else Evolved From Apes

Also appearing in the film is another pro-AKP academic, Ebubekir Sofuoglu,
who says that the Jews believe that they, the descendants of Isaac, consider
themselves the masters, and that "all of us," the descendants of Ishmael,
are created to serve the Jews. Sofuoglu also claims that the Jews used the
Jew Darwin's theory to assert their religious belief that God created the
Jews while everyone else evolved from apes.

Islamist Journalists, AKP Officials: "Mastermind" Aims To Bring Down Turkey
And Its Government

Also in the film, Islamist journalists and writers from the pro-AKP Islamist
media, among them Yusuf Kaplan, Hasan Karakaya, Aydin Unal, Alper Tan, Prof.
Hayrettin Karaman, Avni Ozgurel and others, in addition to government (AKP)
officials, are shown giving their views of "the Mastermind" – whom they
identify as "the Jews" as well as "the U.S." (the latter of which the film
earlier claims is dominated by the Jews). They blame them for both the
destruction of the Ottoman Empire and for the coups in modern Turkey aimed
at ousting Islamist leaders and parties.

Some of the journalists and officials depict the U.S. as a Zionist entity,
while others claim that the U.S. is yet another country that is being
controlled by a "Mastermind" lobby.

Advisor to Turkish Prime Minster Ahmet Davutoglu says in the film that what
Erdogan is doing is bringing this entire story to people's attention, and
urging them to see the big picture. Erdogan, he says, wants recent events
(the "operations" mentioned in his December 2014 speech) to be placed in
this context – and for them to be seen as attempts by "a Mastermind" to
bring down Turkey and its government.



Endnotes:


[1] By "these operations," Erdogan was referring to the October 2014
delivery of Western aid to the Kurds in Kobani, Syria against Turkey's
objections; the 2013 Gezi mass protests; the December 2013 corruption probes
against the AKP government; and activity by his former ally and current
arch-enemy, the Fathullah Gulen Islamic movement.


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