Turkey's Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has reportedly stated that paid military service is one of the priorities the government plans to introduce after President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan begins his tenure as president.According to a report by the Akşam daily in its Thursday edition, Yılmaz gave the news to some 800,000 people who had not served in the army due to various reasons from family matters to education. To the dismay of thousands expecting a renewal of a bill allowing payment to be accepted in lieu of completing military service, the government reportedly will request TL 20,000 to be exempted from military service. Three years ago, Prime Minister Erdoğan's government opened the way for payment to be accepted in lieu of military service in a bid to address the demands of tens of thousands of men over the age of 29 who hadn't yet completed their compulsory military service. The temporary bill allowed men over 29 to pay TL 30,000 to be exempt from their military service. When the long-awaited bill was introduced in 2011, Erdoğan said: "We have two major aims in passing a law on paying to be exempt from military service. The first one is decreasing the number of absentees and people who defer their military service, which has risen. Second, we aim to accomplish some very important social services through this law."Experts say that if the government introduces a bill that will demand TL 20,000 for each man, around half a million people would benefit from it, which means the government would receive around TL 10 billion from this move.According to the findings of Parliament's Research Center, 125,834 people have benefitted from paid military service regulations in Turkey so far.Such regulations have been made four times, in 2011, benefiting 67,630 people, in 1987, which benefitted 18,433 people, in 1992, benefitting 35,111 people, and in 1999, after the big earthquake hit İstanbul, benefitting 72,290 people.