Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and members of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) continue to blast the West over the Egyptian coup. Conspiracy theorizing in Turkey’s Islamist and pro-government media as to who is behind the toppling of democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi is at its peak, with the US and Israel cast in the usual role of villain.
Part of Erdogan’s current and persistent narrative is that the West failed to help Morsi at a time of dire economic need, the implication being that this was part of a plan to stop the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam not just in Egypt, but in the region as a whole.
