You knew this was coming.

Via Ynet:

After two weeks of protests, each side in the Turkish tumult is starting to produce its own narrative, explain the origin of the protest and plan the next step.

In the demonstrators’ viewpoint, the protest’s train has long left its humble beginnings as an environmental struggle against the redevelopment of Gezi Park in central Istanbul, and is now heading toward far more general goals. […]

Conversely, over the last few days and especially since returning from a visit to north Africa, the Turkish PM has constructed his own theory of the ongoing events. At first he comprised a long lists of supposed suspects behind the protests – opposition supporters, hooligans, foreign governments – but recently the government’s narrative is taking a more stable shape and accusations are mostly directed at business men and large-scale investors Erdogan has been terming “the interests lobby.”

According to him, these want to hamper Turkey’s economy for short-term profits. Though the specific guilty partners were not explicitly named, it appears Erdogan is hinting at investors such as Jewish-American tycoon George Soros and other Jewish and Western businessmen.

Also unexplained is why should these investors want to see Turkey’s dynamic economy fail, and in what way do they influence protestors across the country.

In Israel, and in the West in general, Erdogan’s story sounds like a zany conspiracy theory, the sort of which abounds in the Middle East. But Erdogan’s version was carefully crafted.