This study traces the deep historical roots of conspiratorial thinking in modern Turkey with regard to the nebulous West, examining how shifting political orders, ideological ruptures, and interactions spawned fertile ground for conspiratorial narratives. From late Ottoman modernization debates to Cold War geopolitics and post-Soviet realignments, competing visions of sovereignty, populism, and civilizationist discourses shaped distinctive patterns of interpretation that privileged external plots over social contingency. By exploring the evolution of Eurasianism, anti-imperialist nationalism, neo-nationalism as a post-Cold War form of Kemalism, and Islamism, the article reveals how conspiratorial paradigms became enduring lenses through which political, cultural, and intellectual transformations were explained.