Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-871602-0 (ISBN)
Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and heroin trafficking. As an industry at the centre of the Ottoman Empire's long transition into the modern Turkish Republic, as important as the silk road had been in earlier centuries, the modern rise of the opium and heroin trade helped to solidify and complicate long-standing relationships between state officials and criminal syndicates. Such relationships produced not only ongoing patterns of corruption, but helped fuel and enable repeated acts of state violence.
Drawing upon new archival sources from the United States and Turkey, including declassified documents from the Prime Minister's Archives of the Republic of Turkey and the Central Intelligence Agency, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey provides a critical window into how a handful of criminal syndicates played supporting roles in the making of national security politics in the contemporary Turkey. The rise of the 'Turkish mafia', from its origins in the late Ottoman period to its role in the 'deep state' revealed by the so-called Susurluk and Ergenekon scandals, is a story that mirrors troubling elements in the republic's establishment and emphasizes the transnational and comparative significance of narcotics and gangs in the country's past.
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.
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
| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white maps |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 630 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-871602-8 / 0198716028 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-871602-0 / 9780198716020 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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