Tanık: Küresel Entrikalar ve Komplolar

In «Tanık» Cemal Duruk sets out the thesis «nothing in history is coincidence» and presents the history of England as a «design»: behind the «Glorious Revolution» of 1688, the arrival of the House of Hanover and the strengthening of Parliament stand «dark forces» and the support of Jewish bankers. In this part, before explaining England's development, the author takes «a short break» on the Illuminati and the Rothschilds. These claims have not been proved by historians and in the book rest on secondary, often non-academic sources (web pages, the author's own earlier book).

The section «The Illuminati Organisation» describes the Bavarian Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt in Ingolstadt in 1776: a system of three degrees, oaths, code names (for Weishaupt «Spartacus») and, as aims, the overthrow of monarchies, abolition of private property, weakening of patriotism and discrediting of religions are listed. It is written that in 1784, after a member died from a lightning strike, the police found secret notes, the organisation was banned and Weishaupt fled to Gotha. Then the author speaks of an underground continuation called «Neo-Illuminati»; this claim is given without sources.

In the section «The Rothschild Dynasty» the author calls the family «the real owner of the Illuminati» and attributes to it a series of claims: lending money in the England–France war and «seizing» the Bank of England, «igniting» the war of the American colonies, squeezing the Ottoman state with debt and demanding Palestine from Abdülhamid II, «engineering» the First and Second World Wars. These claims are not confirmed by historical sources; they are classic patterns of antisemitic conspiracy theories. At the end the author explains the development of England's industrial revolution in connection with the Whig party and industrialists and ends the section with «capitalists: the Rothschild and Rockefeller families».

The construction of the book: each section starts with short historical information and then tries to «prove» the role of secret organisations; many footnotes give the text an academic look, but the main claims are built not on citation but on coincidence and probability («it can't be chance»). Factual information (the Revolution of 1688, Walpole, the industrial revolution) is mixed in the same tone with claims lacking proof, so the reader may have difficulty telling which can be checked.

• The author uses many footnotes and quotations, which gives the text an academic look; but the main claims are not verified against sources
• The thesis is accepted in advance («it can't be chance») and the events are then arranged to fit; alternative explanations are not considered
• Factual historical information and unproven claims are mixed in the same tone
• The language of the text is assertive and biased, with the words «Jewish», «Zionist» and «banker» used in many places to denote the same group