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162:) are allocated to the president, the government or state organs from a yearly state budget. Users of discretionary funds are offered guidelines as to how they may use these funds, but they have complete flexibility in their use. Discretionary funds can be used without approval from Parliament or any other state institution and are seen as tools to help the government achieve its goals without spending much time on bureaucratic work. Before 2015 the covert appropriations were only reserved to state organs and the government, but in March 2015, a regulation granting a discretionary fund for the presidency was passed as part of a government-sponsored 69: 201: 109: 256:
requested $ 81.1 billion for the 2019 black budget. The request included $ 59.9 billion for the National Intelligence Program, covering non-military programs and activities, and $ 21.2 billion for the Military Intelligence Program which covers Intelligence activities by the Department of Defense. “In
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The U.S. Government claims that the money given to this budget investigates advanced sciences and technologies for military uses. This kind of research is responsible for the creation of new aircraft, weapons, and satellites.
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The black budget has been known to hide multiple types of projects from elected officials. With secret code names and hidden figures, the details of the black budget are revealed only to certain people of Congress, if at all.
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A black budget can be complicated to calculate, but in the United States it has been estimated to be over US$ 50 billion a year, taking up approximately 7 percent of the US$ 700 billion
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According to law, covert spending can not exceed 0.5% of total spending in the budget, but an additional 2% can be used as "supplemental appropriations". In 2018 Turkish
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request and the largest since then... the largest announced since the government began disclosing its intelligence budget request in 2007..." according to
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that is allocated for classified or other secret operations of a state. The black budget is an account of expenses and spending related to
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16.5 billion, 0.5% of total spending in the budget. In 2020 alone, the Presidency was granted TL14.1 billion covert appropriations.
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was "black" (not itemized) in 2015. This represents a doubling from 2010. The increase coincided with huge increases in the
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The bill, and the discretionary funds in general have been heavily criticized and objected by opposition parties such as
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Press Release Concerning the Decision on Allocation of Covert Appropriation to the Budget of the Turkish Presidency
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estimated that the amount of presidential discretionary funds the President can use between 2019 and 2021 would be
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and reorganized some military bases with help of the Defense Department.
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Insight Turkey 2020/03 - Transformation of Turkey's Defense Industry
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Government funding for espionage and other covert operations
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Data visualization of U.S. intelligence black budget (2013)
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In Turkey covert appropriations or "discretionary funds" (
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total, these two are more than 3.4% higher than the
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Black Budget (New Zealand)
government budget
military research
covert operations
military budget

Boulevard Mortier
DGSE
France
French
Gaidar Institute
ru
Russian federal budget
Russian military budget
Vladimir Putin
Spain
Spanish
Turkish
omnibus bill
Republican People's Party
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
National Intelligence Organization
Ministry of Treasury and Finance
TL

United States Department of Defense
black projects
The Washington Post
Edward Snowden
National Security Act of 1947

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