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Military budget
2023: Defence spending - 1.3% of GDP
2021: Defence spending - 2.06% of GDP
2018: Military budget - 2.5% of GDP
Military budget in% of GDP, 2018:
- 8.8% Saudi Arabia
- 4.3% Israel
- 3.9% Russia
- 3.2% United States
- 2.5% Turkey
- 2.4% India
- 2.3% France
- 1.9% Australia
- 1.9% China
- 1.8% United Kingdom
- 1.3% Canada
- 1.2% Germany
(SIPRI)
Number of troops
2025: Average Armed Forces Strength
Investigation
Turkish National Intelligence Academy
Military operations and bases abroad
Navy
2025:13 submarines
The number of submarine fleets in the countries of the world according to Bloomberg as of March 2025:
- UNITED STATES: 70
- Russia: 63
- China: 61
- Iran: 25
- Japan: 24
- South Korea: 22
- India: 18
- North Korea: 13
- Turkey: 13
- Greece: 10
- United Kingdom: 9
- France: 9
- Vietnam: 9
- Egypt: 8
- Italy: 8
- Pakistan: 8
- Singapore: 6
- Algeria: 6
- Australia: 6
- Germany: 6
- Norway: 6
2023: World's first aircraft carrier for combat drones enters service with Turkish Navy
On April 10, 2023, Turkey adopted the world's first universal landing ship Anadolu (TCG Anadolu), which can be used as a light aircraft carrier, into its navy. Read more here.
Fighter aircrafts
2024: US State Department approves $23 billion sale of F-16 fighters to Turkey
In January 2024, the US State Department, after Turkey agreed to join Sweden in NATO, approved the sale of F-16 fighters to Turkey in the amount of $23 billion.
Turkey has requested 40 new F-16 Block 70 fighters and 79 F-16 Block 70 upgrade kits.
At the same time, there are also 48 F110-GE-129D engines on the list.
The Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) associated with Pentagon has issued a formal notification letter to the committees concerned, United States Congress however this notice does not mean that the transfer will necessarily take place.
Next, the process will continue in Congress.
Israel and Greece will be handed over F-35 fighters, and Turkey - F16 fighters.
2019:207 fighters
US military bases
2025: 1,690 U.S. Military
As of April 2025, more than 65 thousand American soldiers are deployed in Europe, in total the United States has deployed about 165 thousand soldiers abroad.
The size of the US military in Europe:
1. Germany: 35 '068
2. Italy: 12 '375
3. Britain: 10 '058
4. Spain: 3 '292
5. Turkey: 1 '690
6. Norway: 1 '438
7. Belgium: 1 '106
Netherlands 8. : 418
9. Greece: 402
10. Poland: 299
2024: Thousands of US military remain stationed in the country
2023
Protesters break into Incirlik airbase to stop support for Israel in destroying Gaza Strip
Organized in November 2023 by the iHH Foundation, the rally in support of Palestine from Istanbul to Adana on November 5 reached its climax.
The action against Israel smoothly turned into a protest against the deployment of American military bases in Turkey.
Protesters in a convoy of 250 cars (about 500 people) arrived at the gates of the Incirlik airbase, demanding its closure and liquidation. The Turks are worried that the US Air Force is taking off from the base to conduct reconnaissance and support the Israeli Air Force, which is destroying civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Since the protests entered a hot phase (the crowd broke through the police cordon, chanting the slogans "Death to Israel!," "Death to America!," "Freedom to Palestine!"), The governor of Adana province arrived at the scene.
The official tried to persuade the crowd to disperse, but this had no effect. As a result, the police used tear gas and water cannons, and also opened fire with rubber bullets on civilians, trying to contain the protesters. Among the victims are children.
At this time, 39 air wings of the US Air Force Command, which provides support to the Israeli Air Force, are deployed at Incirlik Air Base.
20 hydrogen bombs B-61
2022
2019
Turkish foreign military bases
2023
Turkey seeks the status of a regional power, and one sign of this is the expansion of the network of foreign military bases.
For 2023, more than 60 thousand Turkish military serve outside their country. Most of them are in Cyprus, but there are military bases: in the Islamic part of Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo), in Azerbaijan, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Libya and Somalia.
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