“A majority of the Turkish people and its media believe that the [Istanbul] bombings were carried out by some Western intelligence agencies to push Turkey into the crisis created by them in the region. Many Turkish newspapers have also made comments that the real culprits behind the bombing were some other people and not the Al-Qaeda.”
This bit of paranoia and willful blindness comes from Khilafah.com, a Muslim website that may be tied to Hizb-ut-Tahrir. This site shares the goal of Osama bin Laden and others like him around the world: to unify the Islamic world under one ruler, the caliph, who will then wage offensive jihad to spread Islamic rule into what are now non-Muslim areas. This story is attributed to the “Balouchistan Post.”
The article contains quotes from Turkish papers:
“I wonder if this terror is the terror that the US and the UK are fighting against, or the terror that they have produced?”
“Especially after yesterday’s events, some countries condemn terror with no shame … They deceive us. They are sending us a monster which they feed inside them. And they have crocodile tears. What about the US? Is not the US, which always declares it is against terror, in league with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party terrorists who are settled in Northern Iraq?”
“We believe that the possibility of Hezbollah, al-Qaeda or Jihad ve’t Takfir having done this is quite remote. It seems that it is an extension, or another link in the chain of the games that well known international intelligence organisations have been playing over Turkey.”