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Turkey

#11 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Recep Tayyip ErdoฤŸan

Official government site โ†—
โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
328.0:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, Turkey spends $328 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
66.5
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +18.5 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$41.9K
Median income: $2.2K
World Bank PPP 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$16B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$50M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.30% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$750M/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$1.3K

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$16B
1.6% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$1.3K
WHO 2022
โณ
Life Expectancy
76 yrs
World Bank 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
328:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
21.9:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$750M
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
Estimated: WHO health GERD 0.17% of GDP ($1T); gov portion ~50% โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$50M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $750M medical research; $139M in sponsored trials includes industry โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$4B
SIPRI 2023 โ†—
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
30% of GDP
IMF 2024

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’€
Body Count
1,883,000
1913โ€“1918
Summed from 1 sourced government death ledger entry โ†—
โ˜ข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
0
FAS
๐Ÿชฆ
Civilian Deaths
40,000
Various โ€” Kurdish conflict civilian estimates
๐Ÿ’ฅ
Countries Bombed
4
Conflict databases
๐Ÿƒ
Refugees Created
500,000
UNHCR โ€” Afrin/Northeast Syria displacement

๐Ÿ’ฅ Countries Bombed

Cyprus, Iraq (Kurdish regions), Syria, Libya

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Young Turks mass murder campaign
Rummel chapter-title total for Turkey; the underlying statistics pages show a wider 1900โ€“1923 range, so this ledger uses the cleaner chapter total.
Period
1913โ€“1918
Deaths
1,883,000
rummel-midpoint

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
2.6
UNODC 2022
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
380
World Prison Brief 2024 โ†—

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Turkey Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix Turkey's Score

Turkey spends $16B/yr on military and $50M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

Turkey Government Scorecard | The Earth Optimization Game