Military manpower - military age: 21 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,677,826 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males : 2,050,740 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males : 80,102 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $4.9 billion (1995)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 4.6% (1995)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Turkey in Aegean Sea; Cyprus question with Turkey; dispute with The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over name; in September 1995, Skopje and Athens signed an interim accord resolving their dispute over symbols and certain constitutional provisions; Athens also lifted its economic embargo on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Illicit drugs: a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece ______________________________________________________________________