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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey (Paperback)
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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey (Paperback)
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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.
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