In Turkey, he is known for his tangled conspiracy – now Yigit Bulut is new senior adviser of Prime Minister Erdogan. now is Yigit Bulut new chief advisor of Prime Minister Erdogan. Experts speak of a “disturbing and dangerous step”.

As protests in Turkey in June swept over the country, the government had quickly found a culprit: evil forces from overseas. An ominous “center” is behind all the mass demonstrations in the world, the British BBC television journalists were called “English agents” on the road and also the Jewish Diaspora had their fingers in the game somehow, politicians speculated the ruling AKP. Even Lufthansa should have been involved in a conspiracy, according to Turkish media.

In particular, a man drove the conspiracy against the German airline back then forward: Yigit Bulut, former editor in chief of “Haber Turk” and a regular commentator for “24 TV” – both TV stations close to the government in Ankara.

“For months, Lufthansa pressure makes that the third airport will not be built in Istanbul,” Bulut had said at the beginning of the protests. This is to prevent many millions of passengers from Germany future use Turkey as a hub. And because the demonstrators were protesting around the Gezi Park against the airport, it was clear that they were goaded from Germany, so Bulut.

Ironically, this Yigit Bulut is now Recep Tayyip Erdogan are in political matters. The Prime Minister appoints the journalists on Tuesday as its new chief advisor. “This is a very worrying and dangerous step,” said Asli Tunc, media professor at Bilgi University in Istanbul, told . “For Erdogan is taking his wild assertions and baseless allegations seriously.” The head of government is considered to be stubborn anyway, the new consultants should only further confirmed in his stance.

Yigit Bulut claims ” Foreign powers wanted to kill Erdogan “

That Bulut as against Lufthansa throws with conspiracy theories around, is no exception. In another interview, he spoke of foreign forces, which continually sought the Turkish Prime Minister for life – and that only the power of their thoughts: “In order to kill Erdogan by psychokinesis.”

Asli Tunc knows many of these stories from the career of Bulut. About when he claimed that there was only half true political leader in the world. One of them was the Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the Turkish Government and the half was U.S. President Barack Obama.

Or as he called for an official meeting with Erdogan, the Broadcasting Authority Visual Board should censor Internet media. Buluts own talk show called “Sansürsüz”, translated: “without censorship”. “His main argument is always the ‘evil world powers’, who attempted to destroy the AKP government,” said Tunc.

Conspiracies as a normal part of the policy

This Bulut was not always so. Born in 1972, he studied banking and finance in Ankara and at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Later he became a liberal columnist and financial analyst for several newspapers a name. But gradually, the journalist began to admire the policy of the AKP, within the past five years, he became a radical supporters of Erdogan.

Buluts personal passion for conspiracies it coincides with a change that affects the entire political culture of Turkey. Although such theories according Gokhan Bacik, a columnist for the Turkish newspaper “Today’s Zaman” a “fast normal part of political thinking.” But increasingly the conspiracies would displace facts and scientific evidence, observed Professor Tunc: “And if someone defends against cases like Yigit Bulut also be rewarded.”

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