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Middle East > Turkey > Crime

TURKISH CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acquitted 306,445 [2nd of 30]
Adults prosecuted 2,060,060 [2nd of 28]
Definition: Crime > Adults prosecuted
Source: 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)
Assaults 53,485 [12th of 49]
Definition: Crime > Assaults
Source: 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)
Car thefts 14,954 [24th of 46]
Definition: Crime > Car thefts
Source: 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)
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 16.73 % Time series [17th of 39]
Definition: Crime > Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
Source: 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)
Drug offences 4.6 per 100,000 people [32nd of 46]
Definition: Crime > Drug offences
Source: World Development Indicators database
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
Definition: Crime > Illicit drugs
Source: 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)
Jails 504 [4th of 80]
Definition: Crime > Jails
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manslaughters 2,175 [5th of 42]
Definition: Crime > Manslaughters
Source: 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)
Police 165,833 [6th of 47]
Definition: Crime > Police
Source: 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)
Prisoners 64,051 prisoners [8th of 168]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners
Source: 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)
Prisoners > Female 3.7% [76th of 134]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Female
Source: 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)
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 1.7% [58th of 86]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Per capita 92 per 100,000 people [99th of 164]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Per capita
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Rapes 1,260 [24th of 50]
Definition: Crime > Rapes
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Robberies 1,633 [47th of 47]
Definition: Crime > Robberies
Source: 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)
Sentence Length 9 [25th of 21]
Definition: Crime > Sentence Length
Source: 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)
Software piracy rate 65% [51st of 107]
Definition: Crime > Software piracy rate
Source: 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)
Total crimes 286,482 [28th of 50]
Definition: Crime > Total crimes
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0 [143rd of 143]
Definition: Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
Source: 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)

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SOURCES: 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); World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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; 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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