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- Communications
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- Railroads: 8,401 km 1.435-meter gauge; 479 km electrified
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- Highways: 49,615 km total; 26,915 km paved; 16,500 km gravel or
- crushed stone; 4,000 km improved earth; 2,200 km unimproved
- earth (1985)
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- Inland waterways: about 1,200 km
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- Pipelines: crude oil 1,738 km, petroleum products 2,321 km,
- natural gas 708 km
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- Ports: Iskenderun, Istanbul, Mersin, Izmir
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- Merchant marine: 353 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 4,056,455 GRT/7,143,096 DWT; includes 7 short-sea passenger, 1
- passenger-cargo, 191 cargo, 1 container, 5 roll-on/roll-off
- cargo, 3 refrigerated cargo, 1 livestock carrier, 37 petroleum
- tanker, 9 chemical tanker, 3 liquefied gas, 10 combination
- ore/oil, 1 specialized tanker, 80 bulk, 4 combination bulk
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- Civil air: 52 major transport aircraft (1991)
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- Airports: 109 total, 104 usable; 65 with permanent-surface
- runways; 3 with runways over 3,659 m; 30 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 27 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
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- Telecommunications: fair domestic and international systems;
- trunk radio relay network; limited open wire network; 3,400,000
- telephones; broadcast stations - 15 AM; 94 FM; 357 TV; 1
- satellite ground station operating in the INTELSAT (2 Atlantic
- Ocean) and EUTELSAT systems; 1 submarine cable
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