Though fairly large, with 55,000 men and 370 combat aircraft, Turkey's air force is poor and suffers from obsolescence. Many of its aircraft were passed on from other air arms re-equipping with more modern types, though Turkey is now in the process of adding F-16's to its inventory in order to offset this problem. Interception duties are largely tasked to ground-based surface-to-air missiles, so the bulk of the air force is allocated to ground-attack duties.
