military
... growth. By 2007, the tourism sector had largely recovered from the major 2004 tsunami. Following the military coup in September 2006, investment and consumer confidence stagnated due to the uncertain political climate ...
www.exxun.com/Thailand/e_ec.html
military
21 years of age for compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; males are registered at 18 years of age; 2-year conscript service obligation (2006)
www.exxun.com/Thailand/h_ml.html
military
... peacekeeping force in late September 1999, anti-independence Timorese militias - organized and supported by the Indonesian military - commenced a large-scale, scorched-earth campaign of retribution. The militias killed approximately 1,400 Timorese ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
military
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/h_ml.html
military
French Togoland became Togo in 1960. Gen. Gnassingbe EYADEMA, installed as military ruler in 1967, ruled Togo with a heavy hand for almost four decades. Despite the facade of multiparty elections instituted ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/a_fg.html
military
... 5 February 2005 and was succeeded by his son, Faure GNASSINGBE, with the support of the military following international condemnation for the unconstitutional move he then stepped aside pending elections, and Abass ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/d_gv.html
military
18 years of age for selective compulsory and voluntary military service; 2-year service obligation (2006)
www.exxun.com/Togo/h_ml.html
military
18 years of age for voluntary military service (16 years of age with parental consent); no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/h_ml.html
military
... 18 years of age; universal except for active government security forces (including the police and the military), people with mental disabilities, people who have served more than three months in prison (criminal ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/d_gv.html
military
20 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 12 months; 18 years of age for voluntary military service (2007)
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/h_ml.html
military
... Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/a_fg.html
Military
Constitutional Court; High Court of Appeals (Yargitay); Council of State (Danistay); Court of Accounts (Sayistay); Military High Court of Appeals; Military High Administrative Court
www.exxun.com/Turkey/d_gv.html
military
... EU accession since October 2005, progress has been limited in establishing required civilian supremacy over the military; primary domestic threats are listed as fundamentalism (with the definition in some dispute with the ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/h_ml.html
military
IDPs: 1-1.2 million (fighting 1984-99 between Kurdish PKK and Turkish military; most IDPs in southeastern provinces) (2006)
www.exxun.com/Turkey/i_ti.html
military
18-30 years of age for compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation (2006)
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/h_ml.html
military
no regular military forces; Tuvalu Police Force (2008)
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/h_ml.html
military
18-26 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military duty; 18-30 years of age for professionals; 9-year service obligation; the government has stated that recruitment below 18 years of age could ...
www.exxun.com/Uganda/h_ml.html
military
18-25 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months for Army and Air Force, 24 months for Navy (2004)
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/h_ml.html
military
18 years of age (est.) for voluntary military service; 18 years of age for officers and women; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/UnitedArabEmirates/h_ml.html
military
... of age (officers 17-28) for voluntary military service (with parental consent under 18); women serve in military services, but are excluded from ground combat positions and some naval postings; must be citizen ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/h_ml.html
military
... and Iraq, and the subsequent occupation of Iraq, required major shifts in national resources to the military. The rise in GDP in 2004-07 was undergirded by substantial gains in labor productivity. Hurricane ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
military
... by US Fish and Wildlife Service Johnston Atoll: in previous years, an average of 1,100 US military and civilian contractor personnel were present; as of May 2005 all US government personnel had ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/c_pp.html
military
... the government to the military in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand its hold over the government. Civilian rule was not restored until 1985 ...
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/a_fg.html
military
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service; enlistment is voluntary in peacetime, but the government has the authority to conscript in emergencies (2007)
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/h_ml.html
