Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

Exploring the development of heroin smuggling in Turkey since the 1920s, Ryan Gingeras uses newly declassified documents to trace the impact of the drug trade and organized crime on the evolution of the Republic of Turkey, and shows how narcotics syndicates have influenced the political establishment through the 20th century.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: The Imperial Origins of the "Turkish Mafia"


• 2: Turkey, the United States, and the Birth of the Heroin Trade


• 3: The French Connection


• 4: Police Work: Counter-Narcotics Operations and Intelligence


• 5: The Great Turn: The Transformation of Heroin and Organized Crime in the 1970s


• Conclusion: The Deep State and Its Discontents: Heroin and Organized Crime in the Contemporary Age


• Bibliography

About the author

Ryan Gingeras is the author of Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, which received short list distinctions for the Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. He has published on a wide variety of topics related to history and politics in such journals as International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, Iranian Studies, Diplomatic History, Past & Present, and Journal of Contemporary European History.

Summary

Exploring the development of heroin smuggling in Turkey since the 1920s, Ryan Gingeras uses newly declassified documents to trace the impact of the drug trade and organized crime on the evolution of the Republic of Turkey, and shows how narcotics syndicates have influenced the political establishment through the 20th century.

Additional text

provides an original contribution to the history of modern Turkey ... Gingeras' book is a remarkable contribution that paves the path for further studies on the topic.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Gingeras, Ryan (Associate Professor Gingeras, Gingeras Ryan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9780198716020
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871602-0
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Osteuropa, Europäische Geschichte, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, History - General History, Turkey, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Organized crime, Legal History, Türkiye / Turkey