Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 19,534,455 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 11,801,267 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 679,882 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$8.1 billion (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.5% (2002 est.)
Transnational Issues Turkey
Disputes - international:
complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Greece in the
Aegean Sea; Cyprus question remains with Greece; Syria and Iraq
protest Turkish hydrological projects to control upper Euphrates
waters; Turkey is quick to rebuff any perceived Syrian claim to
Hatay province; border with Armenia remains closed over
Nagorno-Karabakh
Illicit drugs:
key transit route for Southwest Asian heroin to Western Europe and
- to a far lesser extent the US - via air, land, and sea routes;
major Turkish, Iranian, and other international trafficking
organizations operate out of Istanbul; laboratories to convert
imported morphine base into heroin are in remote regions of Turkey
as well as near Istanbul; government maintains strict controls over
areas of legal opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw
concentrate
This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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