Conspiracy theories have historically thrived in Turkey, but in recent years the AKP government have escalated their use and redirected their targets. Now, based on a foundation of imagined ‘hereditary victimhood’ that sees critique of the AKP elite as a Western conspiracy to destroy Islam, these conspiracies are driving an increasingly-polarising narrative that starkly divides both the Turkish populace and Turkey’s global relationships. The AKP government’s radicalization has already influenced its domestic constituency, which has grown more anti-Western than at any other time in modern Turkish history, and whose support for sharia rule in Turkey has risen dramatically. Given the extensive reach of the AKP government’s rhetoric in Turkish diaspora communities in the West, we can reasonably expect a similar but certainly mediated influence there as well.