Losing wealth or restricting the poison? Changing opium policies in early republican Turkey, 1923-1945
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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Özgür Burçak Gürsoy YENİLMEZ Beykoz Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | HISTORIA AGRARIA (Q2) | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1139-1472 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | SSCI | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 12-2013 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 0 / 61 / 115–143 | DOI | – |
| Özet |
| The republican government has fulfilled all but one of its promises to the public. The one and only promise it has been unable to keep has to do with the opium problem! 1Emin Sazak, deputy from Eskişehir, made this statement before parliament on 24 June 1938. Such explicit criticism however, was unusual under the authoritarian single-party regime of the inter-war era. Sazak’s reproach regarding lack of attention to the issue hints at the contentious nature of the opium problem, and all the dissenting opinions, clashing priorities, conflicts of interest, and divisiveness it created among Turkish ruling elites. This article examines the changing policies regarding opium in early republican Turkey by focusing on the conflicting discourses and political agendas of the various actors involved. |
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