Turkey
Global Firepower rank #9 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.1975 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Turkey's 2025 military spending at $30 billion, 1.9% of GDP and up 7.2% on the year in real terms, ranking #18 in the world. It has no nuclear weapons of its own.
Alliances: NATO
People and money
- Military spending
- $30.0B
- Active personnel
- 481K
- Reserves
- 380K
- Paramilitary
- 150K
Land forces
- Tanks
- 2,284
- Armored vehicles
- 98K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 1,045
- Towed artillery
- 635
- Rocket artillery
- 237
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 1,101
- Fighters
- 201
- Attack aircraft
- 0
- Helicopters
- 509
- Attack helicopters
- 111
- Tankers
- 7
- Transports
- 84
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 192
- Aircraft carriers
- 0
- Helicopter carriers
- 1
- Submarines
- 14
- Destroyers
- 0
- Frigates
- 17
- Corvettes
- 9
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 0
- Deployed warheads
- 0
Compare Turkey with
Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 Germany 路 India 路 Indonesia 路 Iran 路 Israel 路 Italy 路 Japan 路 North Korea 路 Pakistan 路 Poland 路 Russia 路 Saudi Arabia 路 South Korea 路 Spain 路 Taiwan 路 Ukraine 路 United Kingdom 路 United States
Last updated 2026-10-27. Sources: Global Firepower 2026 (personnel, equipment counts, powerindex), SIPRI Military Expenditure 2025 (Apr 2026) (military spending, share of gdp), SIPRI Yearbook 2026: World Nuclear Forces (nuclear warheads (jan 2026)).