Funding Violence with Drugs: The Cases of Hezbollah and the PKK
Hezbollah and the PKK use black market relations and criminal networks to receive huge amounts…
Dr. Mustafa YETİM is an academic at Eskişehir Osmangazi University and expert at Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM). He completed his undergraduate studies in 2009 at Karadeniz Technical University and then received his master’s degree in 2011 from Sakarya University. His master’s thesis was about “Turkey’s Middle East Policy between 2002 and 2010: Turkey’s Changing Perception in the Middle East”. He finished his PhD in 2016 at Ankara University with the thesis titled “Hizbullah within Middle East and Lebanon Ground: Neo-Weberian Perspective”. He has published several book chapters, articles, commentaries, and analysis on topics such as Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East, Turkey-Qatar relations, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Middle East.
