Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

Informationen zum Autor Ryan Gingeras is the author of Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922 and 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Gingeras, Ryan (Associate Professor Gingeras, Gingeras Ryan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2017
• EAN: 9780198804192
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880419-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Turkey, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Organized crime, Legal History, Türkiye / Turkey