Türkiye climbed from 29th to 11th among arms exporters

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SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, exports of major arms by supplier, trend-indicator values (TIV, million), annual 2000–2025, read from SIPRI via the progrss vault (§4.11, sipri passes value_checks, 3 matches / 0 mismatches). Derived by progrss: five-year sums of annual TIV per supplier (2000–04 and 2021–25), each supplier's share of the total of the 97 country suppliers in SIPRI's export table (non-state and 'unknown' suppliers not included) (97,046 and 153,890 million TIV) and rank by five-year total. Countries SIPRI shows no exports for in a year are treated as zero. TIV measures the military capability of transferred weapons, not their sales price; it is not comparable with arms-sales values, and deliveries are lumpy, which is why five-year totals are used. SIPRI exporter totals count major conventional weapons only (drones, aircraft, ships, missiles, armoured vehicles, engines), not small arms or services. Ranks: 2000–04 Russia 2, Ukraine 6, South Korea 15, Spain 21, Türkiye 29; 2021–25 Russia 3, South Korea 9, Spain 10, Türkiye 11, Ukraine 21. Fact (SIPRI data); shares and ranks are progrss calculations. The pre-check flags coverage (only about 34 countries export in both a single early and late year) because SIPRI lists only countries that export; the five-year windows cover the full exporter set. Edition: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database updated 9 March 2026, export generated 3 Nov 2026; the 2021–25 shares and ranks were confirmed live on SIPRI's fact sheet 'Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2025'; the 2000–04 side is read via the progrss vault. Ranks are among all 97 country suppliers.