Ryan Gingeras

Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• New
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780198716020
• ISBN-10: 0198716028
• Artikelnr.: 40700343

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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