Talks about Turkey's increasing systematic corruption-civilian government offices, banks, local governments, even private businesses. More overview on defense corruptions and other corruptions in Turkey.
Turkey will need fresh resources to pay for several large-scale weapon systems scheduled to be delivered around 2015.Turkey spends billions a year for defense procurement, but the figure should rise by at least $1 billion annually after 2015 because of the expected deliveries.
General profile about geography, people, government, economy, history, principal government officials, energy, transportation, foreign relations, relations with US, and Travel and Business
Turkey shares borders with three major Middle Eastern countries:
Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
The Persian Gulf War's main consequence for Turkey was the
internationalization of the Kurdish issue.
Unable to deal with the refugee flood, Turkey closed its borders in
April after more than 400,000 Kurds had fled into Hakkâri and Mardin
provinces. Turkish soldiers prevented about 500,000 more Kurdish
refugees on the Iraqi side of the border from crossing over to Turkey,
forcing them to remain in makeshift camps; an additional 1 million other
Kurds fled into Iran.
