Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 196,317 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 134,865 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 6,541 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $320 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 5% (FY99)
@Cyprus:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: 1974 hostilities divided the island into two de facto autonomous areas, a Greek Cypriot area controlled by the internationally recognized Cypriot Government (59% of the island's land area) and a Turkish-Cypriot area (37% of the island), that are separated by a UN buffer zone (4% of the island); there are two UK sovereign base areas mostly within the Greek Cypriot portion of the island
Illicit drugs: minor transit point for heroin and hashish via air routes and container traffic to Europe, especially from Lebanon and Turkey; some cocaine transits as well
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