Eyup Asik

• Back From the Brink: Turkey's Ambivalent Approaches to the Hard Drugs Issue

This article focuses on the issue of narcotics and Turkey over a 30-year period. Its point of departure is the 1970s, when the opium production crisis in Turkey, and its associated corrosion of relations with the US, had been brought to an end. The article concentrates on the period in the late 1980s/early to mid-1990s, when the hard drugs issue became fused with other security threats like terrorism and state corruption. During this dark period, Turkey's criminal organizations that were trafficking narcotics made significant inroads in alliance-building with parts of the security state. The article ends with the experiences of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the Turkish state succeeded in containing the impact of illicit drugs. The article argues that both external but in particul...

...�akici (the revelations of whose meeting with Eyup Asik, a former cabinet minister, had been particul...

• Middle East Journal, The
• Vol. 62 Nbr. 4, October 2008

• Corruption: The Turkish Challenge.

..., and one of Yilmaz's closest ministers, Eyup Asik, was leaked to the press. Asik, who had been ...

• Journal of International Affairs
• Vol. 54 Nbr. 1, September 2000

• The mystery of Turkish Hizballah.

...(17) Eyup Asik, a member of the Turkish Parliament, also adm...

• Middle East Policy
• Vol. 9 Nbr. 2, June 2002