Armed Forces of Turkmenistan | |
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Founded | 27 January 1992 |
Service branches | Service branches Ground Forces Air Forces Navy Independent formations Border Troops Internal Troops National Guard |
Headquarters | Ashgabat[1] |
Website | Milli Gosun National Army Newspaper |
Leadership | |
Supreme Commander-in-Chief | Serdar Berdimuhamedow |
Secretary of the State Security Council | Lieutenant General Begench Gundogdyev |
Minister of Defence | Lieutenant General Begench Gundogdyev |
Chief of the General Staff | Colonel Akmurad Anamedov |
Personnel | |
Military age | 18[2] |
Conscription | 24 months (IISS 2012) |
Active personnel | 36,500 (Army 33,000, Air Force 3,000, Navy 500) |
Reserve personnel | formerly 108,000, not since 2018 at least.[3] |
Expenditure | |
Budget | $800 million (FY10) (IISS 2018) |
Percent of GDP | 3.6% (FY10)[2] |
Industry | |
Foreign suppliers | Belarus Kazakhstan North Korea Russia Turkey Serbia[4] United States |
Related articles | |
Ranks | Military ranks of Turkmenistan |
The Armed Forces of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Ýaragly Güýçleri), known informally as the Turkmen National Army (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Milli goşun) is the national military of Turkmenistan. It consists of the Ground Forces, the Air Force and Air Defense Forces, Navy, and other independent formations (etc. Border Troops, Internal Troops and National Guard).