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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 |
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Jails
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504 |
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[4th of 0]
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Judges and Magistrates
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6,041 |
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[5th of 35]
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Manslaughters
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2,175 |
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[5th of 42]
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Police
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165,833 |
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[6th of 47]
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Prisoners
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64,051 prisoners |
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[8th of 0]
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Prisoners > Female
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3.7% |
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[76th of 134]
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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1.7% |
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[58th of 86]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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92 per 100,000 people |
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[99th of 164]
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Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
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51% |
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[34th of 143]
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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91.1% |
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[103rd of 128]
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Rapes
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1,260 |
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[24th of 50]
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Robberies
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1,633 |
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[47th of 47]
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Sentence Length
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9 |
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[25th of 21]
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Software piracy rate
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65% |
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[51st of 107]
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Total crimes
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286,482 |
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[28th of 50]
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United States extradition treaties > Citation
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32 UST 3111. |
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United States extradition treaties > Date signed
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June 7, 1979 |
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United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
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January 1, 1981 |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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0 |
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[143rd of 143]
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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Ray Fisman Edward Miguel
Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Turkey, Republic of Turkey, Turkiye Cumhuriyeti, Turkiye
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