Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

by Ryan Gingeras

Book Overview

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 center of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198804199
• ISBN13: 9780198804192
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"