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Transnational_issues of Turkey

Disputes - international:complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Greece in the Aegean Sea; status of north Cyprus question remains; Syria and Iraq protest Turkish hydrological projects to control upper Euphrates waters; Turkey has expressed concern over the status of Kurds in Iraq; border with Armenia remains closed over Nagorno-Karabakh
Refugees and internally displaced persons:IDPs: 1-1.2 million (fighting 1984-99 between Kurdish PKK and Turkish military; most IDPs in southeastern provinces) (2006)
Illicit drugs:key transit route for Southwest Asian heroin to Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, the US - via air, land, and sea routes; major Turkish and other international trafficking organizations operate out of Istanbul; laboratories to convert imported morphine base into heroin exist in remote regions of Turkey and near Istanbul; government maintains strict controls over areas of legal opium poppy cultivation and over output of poppy straw concentrate; lax enforcement of money-laundering controls

Turkey Quickstats

  • Population: 71,158,647 (July 2007 est.)
  • Area: 780,580 sq km
  • Density: 93 /km² (102nd³)
  • GDP (total): $708.053 billion (16th)
  • GDP (per capita): $9,628 (69th)
  • Literacy: 87.4%

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  • Currency: New Turkish Lira5 (TRY)
  • Dial code: +90

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